Re: Postmaster holding unlinked files for pg_largeobject table

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mié jun 08 14:28:02 -0400 2011:
>>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>>>> This customer is running on 8.4 so I started from there; should I
>>>> backpatch this to 8.2, or not at all?
>
>>> I'm not excited about back-patching it...
>
>> Bummer.
>
> Well, of course mine is only one opinion; anybody else feel this *is*
> worth risking a back-patch for?
>
> My thought is that it needs some beta testing.  Perhaps it'd be sane to
> push it into beta2 now, and then back-patch sometime after 9.1 final,
> if no problems pop up.

I think it'd be sensible to back-patch it. I'm not sure whether now
or later. It's a bug fix that is biting real users in the field, so
it seems like we ought to do something about it.

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