My main/base/pgsql_tmp directory has over 5.7 millions files

[Francois Lacoursiere <lacouf@xxxxxxxxx>]

Is there any reason why these files aren't cleaned-up ?  We have just installed postgresql-9.1.3 and it seems we have this problem since this update.

I haven't checked the ratio (ls takes more than 5 minutes to return) but most of these files seems to be empty.  It causes me problem when I try to tar/untar my data directory to have SR on a slave machine.

Would it be safe to have a cron script cleaining up these files once a day ?  Better yet, any idea why those files are not automatically deleted when they are no longer needed ?

Francois L.

Montreal, Canada