From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
Cc: | Jim Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, 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 03:00:16 |
Message-ID: | 27473.1183431616@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane escribi:
>> I rather doubt that. The most likely implementation would involve
>> cloning a "template" entry into pg_class.
> 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?
regards, tom lane
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