Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2017-11-16 21:58:14 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> [ squint... ] That used to have an actual purpose connected to
>> transaction-abort cleanup, IIRC. It disturbs me that this seems
>> to have been lost.
> I've not found any such use, searching through buffile.c's history. I
> don't quite see how that flag could've been related to abort cleanup
> stuff? There's been another unused caller of makeBufFile, namely
> BufFileCreate, that has been #ifdef'ed out for ages (perhaps we
> should've removed that with this commit or a long time ago). Other than
> that there seems to not have been any other caller setting that flag
> differently since you created the file in db3c4c3a2d980dcd.
I'm tired for today, but will take a closer look tomorrow. I do not
think the mechanism was created without a purpose ...
regards, tom lane
