Re: what is difference between LOCAL and GLOBAL TEMP TABLES in PostgreSQL

From: "Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Jim Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: what is difference between LOCAL and GLOBAL TEMP TABLES in PostgreSQL
Date: 2007-07-03 05:14:24
Message-ID: 162867790707022214k239217afj13400b284a85eb4e@mail.gmail.com
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>
> > How about a new relkind which causes the table to be located in
> > PGDATA/base/<dboid>/pg_temp_<backendid>/<relfilenode>
> > So each backend can have its own copy of the table with the same
> > relfilenode; there's no need for extra catalog entries.
>
> Uh-huh. And what do you do with relpages, reltuples, relfrozenxid, and
> pg_statistic entries? What if one backend wants to TRUNCATE or CLUSTER
> its copy (requiring a new relfilenode)? Where does ALTER TABLE fit into
> this?
>

This entries can be teoreticly virtual (in memory). If we have some
memory storage we can use it for it.

nice a day
Pavel Stehule

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