Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > On Sun, 8 May 2005, Tom Lane wrote: > > > While your original patch is buggy, it's at least fixable and has > > localized, limited impact. I don't think these schemes are safe > > at all --- they put a great deal more weight on the semantics of > > the filesystem than I care to do. > > I'm going to try this some more, because I feel that a scheme like this > that doesn't rely on scanning pg_class and the file system would in fact > be safer.
The current code is nice and localized and doesn't add any burden on our existing code, which is already complicated enough. I think we either fix checkfiles.c, or we remove it and decide it isn't worth checking for unrefrenced files. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
