Re: Postmaster holding unlinked files for pg_largeobject table

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <kevin(dot)grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, alexk <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Alexander Shulgin <ash(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Postmaster holding unlinked files for pg_largeobject table
Date: 2011-06-06 16:17:10
Message-ID: 1307376945-sup-7246@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of lun jun 06 12:10:24 -0400 2011:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:

> > Hmm interesting. I don't think the placement suggested by Tom would be
> > useful, because the Zabbix backends are particularly busy all the time,
> > so they wouldn't run ProcessCatchupEvent at all.
>
> Yeah, I wasn't that thrilled with the suggestion either. But we can't
> just have backends constantly closing every open FD they hold, or
> performance will suffer. I don't see any very good place to do this...

How about doing something on an sinval message for pg_database?
That doesn't solve the WAL problem Kevin found, of course ...

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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