Re: Threaded Sorting

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> ...  But ISTM that if this makes sense for
> >> our internal temp files, it makes sense for user-created temp tables
> >> as well.
> 
> > Yes, I was thinking that, but of course, those are real tables, rather
> > than just files.  Not sure how clean it will be to mix those in the same
> > directory.  We haven't in the past.  Is it a good idea?
> 
> Sure we have --- up till recently, pg_temp files just lived in the
> database directory.  I think it was you that added the pg_temp
> subdirectory, and the reason you did it was to let people symlink the
> temp files to someplace else.  But that's just a zeroth-order
> approximation to providing a tablespace facility for these things.

OK, TODO updated:
* Allow sorting, temp files, temp tables to use multiple workdirectories  

FYI, I originally created that directory so a postmaster startup could
clear that dir.

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