Re: [Exist-open] Garbage xml files in many collections

[Toar <toa...@gm...>]

Hello all,

I've been haunted with this issue for awhile now.
>From time to time, this is what I found out:

I've managed to reproduce the same behavior before by creating an error/exception
in my query. I will need to reconfirm this but it is either with my failed
updates or doing an xmldb:store to an unexisting collection that may have
caused this.

My guess is on the latter though.

This is the query I played with today:

let $x := <date period="2006"><i>a</i></date>
for $i in $x/i
return $i

and 

let $x := <date period="2006"><i>a</i></date>
for $i in $x/i
return xmldb:store("/db/i", "i.xml", $i)

NOTE: /db/i collection doesn't exist

I notice that when I do this, a file gets created in /db/system/temp
with the random 32 digits filename, and inside it there is:

<exist:temp xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist">
    <date period="2006">
        <i>a</i>
    </date>
</exist:temp>


After awhile, /db/system/temp collection gets deleted and this file is gone.
But I notice that sometimes when I go in /db/system/temp, I see more than
the <i>a</i> records that I constructed today. Randomly, the temp directory
can be filled with many many files which contains records from old queries.

I did not manage to reproduce this every time with the sample queries I had
given above though. And up until now, I haven't found any of those temp files
scattered in other collections. For now, they always end up in /db/system/temp


Any comments/hints on this issue and how to properly handle it would be very
appreciated.


Thank you

Toar