Re: How about a proper TEMPORARY TABLESPACE?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com>, Matheus de Oliveira <matioli(dot)matheus(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How about a proper TEMPORARY TABLESPACE?
Date: 2014-06-18 16:59:45
Message-ID: 22455.1403110785@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> Yes. I'd definitely like to see an ALTER TABLESPACE option, with an
> ERROR that lists out all of the non-temporary objects which are found
> (and lists any other databases which have objects in those
> tablespaces..). That would allow administrators who have existing
> notionally temporary-only tablespaces to go clean things up to make them
> actually temporary-only.

That seems just about impossible from a concurrency standpoint
(ie, what if someone is creating a new table in the tablespace
concurrently with your check? Possibly in a different database?)

I would certainly suggest that the first version of the patch not
undertake to allow this property to be ALTERed; the cost-benefit
ratio isn't there IMO.

regards, tom lane

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