Re: Migrating a Database to a new tablespace

Tom Lane wrote:
> Markus Schaber <schabi(at)logix-tt(dot)com> writes:
> > As I said the leftovers are likely to be caused by hard kills and
> > backend crashes, so I would not go into deeper analysis, but maybe the
> > finding and possibly removing of such leftovers should be half-automated
> > to assist server admins.
>
> It's been discussed. Personally I'm afraid of the idea of automatically
> deleting files that seem unreferenced, but having a tool to find them
> for manual deletion isn't a bad idea. I think Bruce had a prototype
> patch at one point --- not sure what the status is.
>

I have work someone did in the past. I just need to be updated to deal
with tablespaces.

ftp://candle.pha.pa.us/pub/postgresql/mypatches/checkfile.*

Let me know if you want details.

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