Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of lun nov 08 22:29:28 -0300 2010: > Hmm. If you look at FileClose() in fd.c, you'll discover that that > "temporary file" log message is emitted immediately before unlink'ing > the file. It looks pretty safe ... but, scratching around, I notice > that there's a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS at the end of ereport(). So a > cancel that was caught by that exact CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS call could > provoke this symptom. The window for this is larger than it might seem > since the CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS could be responding to an interrupt that > came in sometime before that. > > I think we need to re-order the operations there to ensure that the > unlink will still happen if the ereport gets interrupted. Would it work to put the removal inside a PG_CATCH block? -- Ãlvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general