ddl.lck files created in VARDIR state directory - Do these need to manually removed? (4262914)

There are hundreds of .ddl*.lck files in the vardir/state directory. Do these need to manually removed? This is what they look like: ---------- 1 root dba 0 Feb 12 14:43 .ddl-277-0-9752-332743100.lck ---------- 1 root dba 0 Feb 12 14:43 .ddl-277-0-9752-321008296.lck

The *ddl*lck* files are created by poster to insure that only a single poster instance applies a DDL that may have been broadcast to multiple poster queues. These "lock" filenames are constructed with the sequence number and offset of the redo record [from the source]; poster is supposed to clean them up periodically. Once again: these files are created quite deliberately, and not as a result of an error. Poster cleans [removes] them periodically.

Please retain these files and don't remove them.