Re: [Proposal] Global temporary tables

> 2020年2月5日 下午10:15，Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> 写道：
>
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 8:21 AM 曾文旌(义从) <wenjing.zwj@alibaba-inc.com> wrote:
>> What do you mean by "catalog buffer"?
>> Yes, cleanup of local temp table requires deletion of correspondent entry from catalog and GTT should not do it.
>> But  I am speaking only about cleanup of data files of temp relations. It is done in the same way for local and
globaltemp tables. 
>>
>> For native pg, the data file of temp table will not be cleaned up direct after oom happen.
>> Because the orphan local temp table(include catalog, local buffer, datafile) will be cleaned up by deleting the
orphantemp schame in autovacuum. 
>> So for GTT ,we cannot do the same with just deleting data files. This is why I dealt with it specifically.
>
> After a crash restart, all temporary relfilenodes (e.g t12345_67890)
> are removed. I think GTTs should use relfilenodes of this general
> form, and then they'll be cleaned up by the existing code. For a
> regular temporary table, there is also the problem of removing the
> catalog entries, but GTTs shouldn't have this problem, because a GTT
> doesn't have any catalog entries for individual sessions, just for the
> main object, which isn't going away just because the system restarted.
> Right?
Wenjing wrote:
I have implemented its processing in global_temporary_table_v10-pg13.patch
When oom happen, all backend will be killed.
Then, I choose to clean up these files(all like t12345_67890) in startup process.

Wenjing

>
>> In my patch autovacuum is prohibited for GTT.
>>
>> But vacuum GTT is not prohibited.
>
> That sounds right to me.
Wenjing wrote:
Also implemented in global_temporary_table_v10-pg13.patch

Wenjing

>
> This thread is getting very hard to follow because neither Konstantin
> nor Wenjing seem to be using the standard method of quoting. When I
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> because both of your mailers are quoting using indentation rather than
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> Thanks,
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