On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 04:55:44PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Another way to do it would be keeping the list of files to delete along > > with the deleting Xid, but that would also require keeping a list of > > which xacts aborted and which ones didn't. > > Really? When a subtransaction finishes, you either delete its files > immediately (ie, if it aborted, you can drop files it created) or you > reassign them as the responsibility of the parent (since any effects of > the subtransaction really depend on whether the parent commits, you > can't actually do its deletes yet). Right, that's the mechanism I originally envisioned. (A similar one is needed for deferred triggers, async notifies, heavy locks and on commit actions.) -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>) Y dijo Dios: "Que sea Satanás, para que la gente no me culpe de todo a mí." "Y que hayan abogados, para que la gente no culpe de todo a Satanás" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
