From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2026 at 4:37 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Don't we have logic somewhere to clean up orphaned relation files?

> Uh ... no?

> I mean, temp tables get cleaned up and unlogged tables get reset to
> empty, but the goal of being able to remove permanent relation files
> instead of permanently leaking them has, to my knowledge, thus far
> eluded us.

You're right, I was thinking of temp-table cleanup.

			regards, tom lane