Re: BUG #16427: pgsql_tmp - temp files not released

From: Murali Natti <murali(dot)natti(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Euler Taveira <euler(dot)taveira(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #16427: pgsql_tmp - temp files not released
Date: 2020-07-13 22:44:41
Message-ID: CAE2yBfK4pXk0cY9vG5rJQv9qAoOBYPOs0uCp=iSP7+uVN281sw@mail.gmail.com
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It again happened today and this time it happened in PG11.4 DB. We had to
bounce the instance to clear the space.

On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 11:10 PM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
wrote:

> On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 10:48:58AM -0300, Euler Taveira wrote:
> > I wonder if a GUC (cleanup_temp_files_after_crash) is useful for an
> > environment that has storage restrictions. This is the second time this
> > month that I stumbled on this issue. Of course, I don't expect a postgres
> > crash once a while but we know that, due to extensibility, some
> extensions
> > could crash and the only workaround to this issue is to restart service
> > (which means a human intervention and an additional downtime).
>
> Sounds like a fair concern to me. It is annoying to have to do some
> manual intervention for some environments under disk pressure.
> --
> Michael
>

--
Thanks,
Murali

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