Re: BUG #16427: pgsql_tmp - temp files not released

On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 10:48:58AM -0300, Euler Taveira wrote:
> I wonder if a GUC (cleanup_temp_files_after_crash) is useful for an
> environment that has storage restrictions. This is the second time this
> month that I stumbled on this issue. Of course, I don't expect a postgres
> crash once a while but we know that, due to extensibility, some extensions
> could crash and the only workaround to this issue is to restart service
> (which means a human intervention and an additional downtime).

Sounds like a fair concern to me.  It is annoying to have to do some
manual intervention for some environments under disk pressure.
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Michael