Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.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 workdirectories
FYI, I originally created that directory so a postmaster startup could
clear that dir.
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