Re: AutoVacuum Behaviour Question

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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera  writes:
> > > Tom Lane wrote:
> > >> Yeah, we had better investigate some way to clean them up.  It was never
> > >> obvious before that it mattered to get rid of orphan temp tables, but I
> > >> guess it does.
> > 
> > > Would it be enough to delete the tuple from pg_class?
> > 
> > No, you need a full DROP.  I don't see that that's harder than removing
> > only the pg_class tuple --- the problem in either case is to be sure
> > it's OK.  In particular, how to avoid a race condition against an
> > incoming backend that adopts that BackendId?  Worst-case, you could be
> > deleting a temp table he just made.
> 
> Oh, I was just thinking in way for Bruce to get out of his current
> situation.
> 
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