Re: Stale temp tables

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Darley <pdarley(at)kinesis-cem(dot)com>
Cc: Pgsql-General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Stale temp tables
Date: 2002-03-11 20:49:22
Message-ID: 200203112049.g2BKnMT13187@candle.pha.pa.us
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Peter Darley wrote:
> Friends,
> I've got a whole bunch (8,000 or so) of old stale temp tables that were the
> result of a hung backend. I can see them using pgAdmin II, but not through
> psql. Is there any way to dump these guys, should I dump them, are they
> likely to be causing problems? What should I do about this?

Wow, that is a good question. You can stop the postmaster and start the
'postgres' binary with the -O option and drop them. -O is required
because they are system tables.

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