Re: Postmaster holding unlinked files for pg_largeobject table

Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mar jun 07 12:26:34 -0400 2011:

> It's not *that* many levels: in fact, I think md.c is the only level
> that would just have to pass it through without doing anything useful.
> I think that working from there is a saner and more efficient approach
> than what you're sketching.
>
> If you want a concrete design sketch, consider this:

Okay, here's a patch implementing this idea. It seems to work quite
well, and it solves the problem in a limited testing scenario -- I
haven't yet tested on the customer machines.

This customer is running on 8.4 so I started from there; should I
backpatch this to 8.2, or not at all? (I have all the branches ready
anyway.)

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