Re: AutoVacuum Behaviour Question

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Yeah, we had better investigate some way to clean them up. It was never
> >> obvious before that it mattered to get rid of orphan temp tables, but I
> >> guess it does.
>
> > Would it be enough to delete the tuple from pg_class?
>
> No, you need a full DROP. I don't see that that's harder than removing
> only the pg_class tuple --- the problem in either case is to be sure
> it's OK. In particular, how to avoid a race condition against an
> incoming backend that adopts that BackendId? Worst-case, you could be
> deleting a temp table he just made.

Oh, I was just thinking in way for Bruce to get out of his current
situation.

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