On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 8:40 AM, Thomas Munro >> <thomas.mu...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: >>> Belatedly, +1. The error hiding seemed a bit odd considering that we >>> were prepared to log "unexpected file found ...". I probably should >>> have questioned that instead of extending it monkey-see-monkey-do. > >> Well, I am -1 on this change. The coding before commit 561885d that >> you have now pushed (timezone makes me answer later) was way more >> conservative and I honestly preferred it as *only* the next postmaster >> restart would remove remnant temp files which can cause potentially GB >> of data to stay around. > > Uh ... I'm confused? That particular change only concerns whether we emit > a log message, not whether the action is attempted or succeeds.
>From the commit mentioned upthread, this switches one hard failure when opening pg_tblspc to a LOG report: @@ -3014,7 +3018,7 @@ RemovePgTempFiles(void) */ spc_dir = AllocateDir("pg_tblspc"); - while ((spc_de = ReadDir(spc_dir, "pg_tblspc")) != NULL) + while ((spc_de = ReadDirExtended(spc_dir, "pg_tblspc", LOG)) != NULL) { ReadDir() issues an ERROR when spc_dir is NULL.. -- Michael