Re: Do not lock temp relations - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Daniil Davydov
Subject Re: Do not lock temp relations
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Msg-id CAJDiXghA0H386b087d4Ntaaq_PsGzUZ3JPek4O9hR3BaHxZxBA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Do not lock temp relations  (Maxim Orlov <orlovmg@gmail.com>)
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> Yes. Our implementation restrictions preclude access to the contents  
> of another session's temp tables, but it is not forbidden to do DDL  
> on them so long as no content access is required. (Without this,  
> it'd be problematic for example to clean out a crashed session's temp  
> tables. See the "orphan temporary tables" logic in autovacuum.c.)  

Indeed, a potentially dangerous situation may arise when both the autovacuum and client process attempt to delete the contents of a temporary namespace. But there is a patch (6faca9ae2878c8f642a2e5748d2dbb2b91341bec) that protects us from race condition in this case. -- Best regards,
Daniil Davydov.

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