Re: How about a proper TEMPORARY TABLESPACE? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Fabrízio de Royes Mello
Subject Re: How about a proper TEMPORARY TABLESPACE?
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In response to Re: How about a proper TEMPORARY TABLESPACE?  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: How about a proper TEMPORARY TABLESPACE?  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br />On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Stephen Frost <<a
href="mailto:sfrost@snowman.net">sfrost@snowman.net</a>>wrote:<br />><br />> > I have took some small time
tomake a PoC just to see if that is doable.<br /> > > And so I did a new syntax like:<br />> ><br />>
>    CREATE TABLESPACE spcname [TEMP | TEMPORARY] LOCATION ...<br />> ><br />> > So, if TEMP or
TEMPORARYis present, I mark a new column at pg_tablespace<br /> > > as true. On every table creation or moving to
anew tablespace, I just<br />> > check this, and fails if the tablespace is "temporary" but the<br />> >
"relpersistence"says the table is not.<br /> ><br />> Not sure about that specific syntax (don't we have SET
optionsnow?) but<br />> I do like the general idea.<br />><br /><br /></div><div class="gmail_extra">Maybe
somethinglike that:<br /><br />CREATE TABLESPACE spcname LOCATION '/foo/bar' WITH (only_temp_relations = true);<br
/></div><divclass="gmail_extra"><br /></div><div class="gmail_extra">Have in mind you must take care if you use ALTER
TABLESPACEspcname SET (...) to guarantee that exists only temp objects stored in the target tablespace, and if exists a
regularobject you must throw an exception.<br /><br /></div><div class="gmail_extra">Makes sense?<br /></div><div
class="gmail_extra"><br/></div><div class="gmail_extra">Regards,<br /><br /></div><div class="gmail_extra">--<br
/>Fabríziode Royes Mello<br />Consultoria/Coaching PostgreSQL<br /> >> Timbira: <a
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