Re: Index build temp files - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Noah Misch
Subject Re: Index build temp files
Date
Msg-id 20130110023655.GB11600@tornado.leadboat.com
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In response to Re: Index build temp files  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 03:20:33PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> What would people think of just eliminating the access-permissions
> checks involved in temp_tablespaces?  It would likely be appropriate to
> change temp_tablespaces from USERSET to SUSET if we did so.  So
> essentially the worldview would become that the DBA is responsible for
> the temp_tablespaces setting, not individual users.

Allowing that the new behavior could be clearer, that gain is too small to
justify the application compatibility hazard of making temp_tablespaces SUSET.
I don't see something we can do here that clearly improves things overall.



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