Re: possible bug: orphaned files left after immediate shutdown during DDL

On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 22:58 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> It's intentional ... not that other people haven't complained about it
> before.  Remember that what you have done is forced a crash, and
> recovery from it is crash recovery.  If we proactively removed such
> files we would very possibly be destroying evidence of forensic value.

I thought that might be the case, but I wasn't able to find any previous
discussions.

It might be a good idea to issue a warning during recovery, however,
like "possible orphaned file ...". I'm not sure if it's worth the
bookkeeping effort though.

Regards,
    Jeff Davis