Re: Removal of temp tables

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > I was wondering that.  The old vacuum file detection patch had the sort
> > files going into /pg_sorttemp and files called pid_.  Your changes made
> > it pg_tempfile directory and pg_temp file names.  I like the older names
> > that made them clear they were _not_ temp tables.  Seemed you wanted
> > them to have similar names for reasons I couldn't figure.
>
> I'm not wedded to those names; if you have a better idea, let's hear it.
> I changed it because I didn't like the use of the word "sort"; temp
> files are not used only for sorts, but for several other things, and so
> I wanted to see them called temp files not sorttemp files.  But if you
> want to change them so that they look even less like the logical names
> of temp relations, that's OK with me.

OK, I will do that.  What else do we do with them except sorts?  Seems
pid_ was a good file name because they are always based on pid in
storage/file/fd.c.  The directory could be called simply 'tempfile' with
no pg_.  How is that?

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