Re: pg_sorttemp files

> Thus spake Tom Lane
> > darcy(at)druid(dot)net (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
> > >> BTW, if you are seeing unreclaimed sorttemp files in a recent release
> > >> (7.0 or later), I'd like to know about it. That shouldn't happen,
> > >> short of a backend crash anyway...
> >
> > > Well, I had over 6,000 of these files. This database is about a year old.
> > > I haven't seen all that many backend crashes in that time. I guess I better
> > > keep a close eye on them.
> >
> > Wow! Did you happen to note how many distinct PIDs were accounted for?
> > That would give us some idea of how many lossage events there were.
>
> I think there were about 25 or so.
>
> Perhaps these files could be cleaned up on startup.

The will be cleaned up on postmaster startup in 7.2.

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