On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 12:36:46PM -0500, Jerry Sievers wrote:
> Still, the discovery was rather shocking and a couple hours of
> investigation ensude to explain the matter.
>
> Oh, and those 700G of space was actual logged table data, not temp or
> UNlogged, ergo our standby system is likewise bloated by this amount.
>
> When we do the rescheduled upgrade thus we'll be saving 1.4T. OH yeah
> baby!!
This is on our TODO list since at least 2006:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo
Check for unreferenced table files created by transactions that were
in-progress when the server terminated abruptly
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/200606081508.k58F85m29270@candle.pha.pa.us
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