Re: including backend ID in relpath of temp rels - updated patch

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: including backend ID in relpath of temp rels - updated patch
Date: 2010-08-06 19:17:24
Message-ID: 20100806191724.GN11611@fetter.org
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On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 03:00:35PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > This patch only directly addresses the issue of cleaning up the
> > storage, so there are still the catalog entries to worry about.
> > But it doesn't seem impossible to think about building on this
> > approach to eventually handle that part of the problem better,
> > too. I haven't thought too much about what that would look like,
> > but I think it could be done.
>
> Perhaps run through pg_class after restart and flush anything marked
> relistemp? Although the ideal solution, probably, would be for temp
> tables to not have persistent catalog entries in the first place.

For the upcoming global temp tables, which are visible in other
sessions, how would this work?

Cheers,
David.
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