On 8/20/20 14:46, Tom Lane wrote: > There might be value in a user-invokable tool that runs in an existing > non-crashed database and looks for orphan files, but I'm not aware that > anyone has written one. (Race conditions against concurrent table > creation would be a problem; but probably that can be finessed somehow, > maybe by noting the file's creation time.) Bertrand Drouvot just put out a tool to list potentially orphaned files a couple months ago. https://github.com/bdrouvot/pg_orphaned Implemented as an extension, doesn't remove the files, but useful nonetheless. -Jeremy -- http://about.me/jeremy_schneider
