Is this item closed? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > -- > Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ > The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to > choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not > match -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
