On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Jerry Sievers <gsievers19@comcast.net> wrote:
> Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> You do know that temp tables go into the default temp table space,
>> just like sorts, right?
>
> Not so.
>
> This system has no defined temp_tablespace however spillage due to
> sorting/hashing that exceeds work_mem goes to base/pgsql_tmp which we
> have symlinked out to a local SSD drive.
Which is also where temp tables are created.