Re: Use of non-restart-safe storage by temp_tablespaces

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Jerry Sievers <gsievers19(at)comcast(dot)net>
Cc: Mark Dilger <hornschnorter(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Use of non-restart-safe storage by temp_tablespaces
Date: 2017-06-06 02:34:17
Message-ID: 20170606023417.GB14212@momjian.us
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On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 04:38:32PM -0500, Jerry Sievers wrote:
> The SAN snaps capture the entire pgdata and WAL pg_xlog area but there
> is no attempt to copy the NVME device when the snaps are made.
>
> There's an event trigger plus batch job now running tou avoid this risk.
>
> We realize too that there are implications here if a backup is
> instantiated and PITR is done.
>
> Just FYI that there could be others running like this ignorant of the
> potential gotchas.

Yes, if we implement the TODO you will create a TEMPORARY tablespace
that can't contain non-temporary and/or non-unlogged tables.

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