Tom, > Let's go with the easy fix. With regular 1GB segment size, having a few > empty files in the data directory isn't going to hurt anyone.
No, but it will confuse DBAs ("What the heck are all these 0B files?"). Maybe we should add code to VACUUM to look for these empty file segments and unlink them if they haven't been touched in a while (say, a day?). -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate