From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Hans-Jürgen Schönig <hs(at)cybertec(dot)at>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Threaded Sorting |
Date: | 2002-10-05 03:53:37 |
Message-ID: | 200210050353.g953rbd00249@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> ... But ISTM that if this makes sense for
> >> our internal temp files, it makes sense for user-created temp tables
> >> as well.
>
> > Yes, I was thinking that, but of course, those are real tables, rather
> > than just files. Not sure how clean it will be to mix those in the same
> > directory. We haven't in the past. Is it a good idea?
>
> Sure we have --- up till recently, pg_temp files just lived in the
> database directory. I think it was you that added the pg_temp
> subdirectory, and the reason you did it was to let people symlink the
> temp files to someplace else. But that's just a zeroth-order
> approximation to providing a tablespace facility for these things.
OK, TODO updated:
* Allow sorting, temp files, temp tables to use multiple work
directories
FYI, I originally created that directory so a postmaster startup could
clear that dir.
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