Re: OK to put temp tablespace on volatile storage or to omit it from backups?

On 2013.04.30 7:14 PM, Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote:
> 2013/5/1 Yang Zhang <yanghatespam@gmail.com>:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net> wrote:
>>> On 2013.04.30 4:55 PM, Yang Zhang wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I would intuit that it's fine, but I just want to make sure there are
>>>> no gotchas from a recovery point of view:
>>>>
>>>> If I were to lose my temp tablespace upon system crash, would this
>>>> prevent proper crash recovery?
>>>>
>>>> Also, if I were to omit the temp tablespace from the base backup,
>>>> would that prevent proper backup recovery?
>>>
>>>
>>> Although it would be nice if what you said would work, I read in a recent
>>> blog post that losing any tablespace would prevent the database server from
>>> starting, even if it was only for temporary things. -- Darren Duncan
>>
>> That is unfortunate.  Good thing I asked, I guess.  Do you have a
>> pointer to said blog post?
>
> I think this is the post in question:
>
> http://thebuild.com/blog/2013/03/10/you-cannot-recover-from-the-loss-of-a-tablespace/

Yes, that looks like it. -- Darren Duncan