Re: Cleaning up unreferenced table files

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Cleaning up unreferenced table files
Date: 2005-04-27 18:53:41
Message-ID: 200504271853.j3RIrfO07131@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > I think we do need the patch, at least to find out if there is an issue
> > we don't know about.
>
> My point is that we won't find out anything, because we will have no
> idea if people are noticing the log entries at all, much less telling
> us about 'em. Of course if they do tell us then we'd know something,
> but what I am expecting is a vast silence. We will not be able to tell
> the difference between "no problem" and "very infrequent problem" any
> better than we can now.

I think people do look at their logs. We are certainly better off
finding it than having no reporting at all.

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