Re: temp schemas - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: temp schemas
Date
Msg-id 26112.1219947790@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to temp schemas  ("Roberts, Jon" <Jon.Roberts@asurion.com>)
Responses Re: temp schemas  ("Dave Page" <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
Re: temp schemas  ("Roberts, Jon" <Jon.Roberts@asurion.com>)
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"Roberts, Jon" <Jon.Roberts@asurion.com> writes:
> I am noticing a large number of temp schemas in my database.  We use
> temp tables but it doesn't appear that the schemas get dropped for some
> reason.

That's intentional.  There doesn't seem a lot of value in dropping a
catalog entry that'll just have to be created again later.

> This greatly slows down how long it takes pgAdmin to connect
> because it retrieves thousands of pg_temp_% schemas.

Why have you got thousands of them?  If you are running with thousands
of active backends, may I suggest a connection pooler?

(It might be a good idea to fix pgAdmin so it ignores other sessions'
temp schemas, though.)

            regards, tom lane

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