Re: autovacuum: found orphan temp table

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: autovacuum: found orphan temp table
Date: 2014-07-02 15:18:05
Message-ID: 3525.1404314285@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> While it is obvious what is happening in $SUBJECT as well as reasonably
> obvious why it can happen. What isn't obvious is what to do about it. It
> seems we log in as a super user and drop the temp tables.

You don't need to do anything --- the table will go away the next time
a session makes use of that pg_stat_temp schema.

> However, I would think if we know that it is orphaned that autovacuum
> should just clean those up?

That seems to me to be outside the charter of autovacuum, particularly
since orphan tables might be of interest for forensic reasons.

regards, tom lane

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