Re: Remove sort files

> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > The only unusual part is the use of system("find...rm...") to remove the
> > files in pg_sorttemp. Seemed cleaner than doing fancy directory
> > walking code in C.
>
> 'find' is not in the portable subset of shell utilities, AFAIK. If you do
> put them into a separate directory you could use "rm -rf %s" on that
> directory.

I did it that way so if pg_sorttemp is a symlink, I don't remove the
symlink, just the files inside. The 'find' needs to be updated though
to '! -file f' rather than '-type d' because it will not see symlinks,
and I am not sure the find symlink find flag is portable.

Anyway, I am still thinking about this. I haven't addressed tables that
are orphaned by a rename aborting.

I am no where near ready to apply this yet.

>
> Why don't we put the sort files into /tmp and let the system figure out
> how to get rid of them?

I am concerned that /tmp has size limitations that /data doesn't. I
know on my BSD/OS, it limits to 75MB because it is a memory-based file
system.

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