Loles <lolesft@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > What postgres process, or system, identify and delete datafiles that have > become unassociated? The truncate operation doesn't appear to be.. the > datafile has existed for some time after the truncate command execution > finished. The zero-length file is a placeholder to ensure that that relfilenode number doesn't get re-used right away. It'll get cleaned up during the next checkpoint. regards, tom lane
