Re: [PATCHES] Cleaning up unreferenced table files

Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> writes:
> On Tue, 10 May 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> The current code is nice and localized and doesn't add any burden on our
>> existing code, which is already complicated enough. I think we either
>> fix checkfiles.c, or we remove it and decide it isn't worth checking for
>> unrefrenced files.

> Let's pull the patch for now.

FWIW, I was OK with the idea of adding something similar to the given
patch to find out whether we had a problem or not. With sufficient
evidence that lost files are a big problem, I'd be in favor of a
mechanism of the kind proposed in Heikki's latest messages. The
disconnect for me at the moment is that there's no evidence to justify
that amount of effort/risk. A startup-time patch would have provided
that evidence, or else have proven that it's not worth spending more
time on.

regards, tom lane