Re: Vacuuming leaked temp tables (once again)

Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> > The only solution proposed in that thread was to auto-delete temp
> > tables at postmaster restart; which I opposed on the grounds that
> > throwing away data right after a crash was a terrible idea from a
> > forensic standpoint.
>
> Why not just rename the files out of the way, and nuke the entries from
> the catalog? Something like "filename.crash" or similar that an admin
> can have scripts in place to check for and who could then go handle as
> appropriate (remove, investigate, etc).

This was my thought too.

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