2010/9/3 Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>:
> On 03/09/10 11:16, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>>
>> 2010/8/31 Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>>>
>>> Pavel Stehule<pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>> there is a dump from 8KB files
>>>
>>> Well, those certainly look like tables/indexes not temp files.
>>> So we can rule out one theory.
>>>
>>> You're *certain* these aren't referenced from pg_class.relfilenode
>>> of any of the databases in the server?
>>
>> I have a info, so these files are not in pg_class.relfilenode. More -
>> these files are three months old, and in this time was server two
>> times restarted.
>
> Maybe they're tables that were created in a transaction, but the process
> crashed hard before committing? Like:
>
> BEGIN;
> CREATE TABLE foo (...);
> COPY foo FROM ...;
> kill -9 postgres
yes, it's possible - but there are not any record about server crash -
sometimes client crashes.
Regards
Pavel
>
> That will leave behind a file like that. Do you do something like that in
> the application?
>
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> Heikki Linnakangas
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