Re: share info between backends

On 1/11/07, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
> Jaime Casanova wrote:
> >
> > i'm trying to fix a problem related to the patch Albert sent in
> > october (Tablespace for temporary objects and sort files)
> > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-10/msg00141.php
> > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-01/msg00063.php
> >
> > after reviewing this i notice this will not use different tablespaces
> > in the case of having various connections all with just one temp
> > table:
> > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-01/msg00188.php
> >
> > what i'm trying to do it is share what's the next_temp_tablespace to
> > use...
> > the other way to do this is as you say using tables, but i don't think
> > this is a good idea in this case...
> >
> > comments?
> >
>
> Why not make it probabilistic by using, say, MyProcPid % n where n is the
> number of tablespaces? Then you don't need anything shared.
>

mmm... is not great to try to kill flies with tanks? ;)
thanks for the idea, i will try it

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Jaime Casanova

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