Re: pgsql: Remove BufFile's isTemp flag.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Remove BufFile's isTemp flag.
Date: 2017-11-17 02:58:14
Message-ID: 23339.1510887494@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> Remove BufFile's isTemp flag.
> The isTemp flag controls whether buffile.c chops BufFile data up into
> 1GB segments on disk. Since it was badly named and always true, get
> rid of it.

[ squint... ] That used to have an actual purpose connected to
transaction-abort cleanup, IIRC. It disturbs me that this seems
to have been lost.

regards, tom lane

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