Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> One other thought about all this: in the past, one objection that's been
>> raised to deleting files during crash restart is the possible loss of
>> forensic evidence.
> ... With this patch, we can be sure of removing ALL
> stray files, which is maybe ever-so-slightly leaky in CVS HEAD. But
> on the other hand, because it hooks into the existing temporary file
> cleanup code, it only happens at cluster startup, NOT after a backend
> crash.
Doh. Thanks.
regards, tom lane