Re: [Proposal] Global temporary tables

>I find this is the most latest mail with an attachment, so I test and reply on
>this thread, several points as below:

>1. I notice it produces new relfilenode when new session login and some
>data insert. But the relfilenode column in pg_class still the one when create
>the global temp table. I think you can try to show 0 in this area as what nail
>relation does.
>I think getting the GTT to have a default relfilenode looks closer to the existing implementation, and setting it to 0 requires extra work and has no clear benefit.
>What do you think？
>I'd like to know the reasons for your suggestion.
The 'relfilenode' mean the file no on disk which different from oid of a relation,
the default one is a wrong for gtt, so I think it's not so good to show it in
pg_class.

>2. The nail relations handle their relfilenodes by RelMapFile struct, and this
>patch use hash entry and relfilenode_list, maybe RelMapFile approach more
>understandable in my opinion. Sorry if I miss the real design for that.
>We can see the STORAGE and statistics info for the GTT, including relfilenode, through view pg_gtt_relstats

postgres=# \d gtt
Table "public.gtt"
Column | Type | Collation | Nullable | Default
--------+---------+-----------+----------+---------
a | integer | | |
b | integer | | |

postgres=# insert into gtt values(1,1);
INSERT 0 1
postgres=# select * from pg_gtt_relstats ;
schemaname | tablename | relfilenode | relpages | reltuples | relallvisible | relfrozenxid | relminmxid
------------+-----------+-------------+----------+-----------+---------------+--------------+------------
public | gtt | 16384 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 532 | 1
(1 row)

postgres=# truncate gtt;
TRUNCATE TABLE
postgres=# select * from pg_gtt_relstats ;
schemaname | tablename | relfilenode | relpages | reltuples | relallvisible | relfrozenxid | relminmxid
------------+-----------+-------------+----------+-----------+---------------+--------------+------------
public | gtt | 16387 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 533 | 1
(1 row)

I just suggest a way which maybe most naturely to the exist code struct, and it's
uo to you.

>3. I get a wrong result of pg_relation_filepath() function for global temp table,
>I think it's necessaryto keep this an correct output.

postgres=# select pg_relation_filepath(oid) from pg_class where relname = 'gtt';
pg_relation_filepath
----------------------
base/13835/t3_16384
(1 row)

I didn't find anything wrong. Could you please give me a demo.

In my opinoin it should show 'base/13835/t3_16387', other than 'base/13835/t3_16384',
because the relfilenode change to 16387 when you truncate it in step 2.

>4. In gtt_search_by_relid() function, it has not handle the missing_ok argument
>if gtt_storage_local_hash is null. There should be some comments if it's the right
>code.
>This is a problem that has been fixed in global_temporary_table_v34-pg13.patch.
Sorry about it, I can not find it in mail thread and maybe I miss something. The mail thread
is so long, it's better to create a new mail thread I think.

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