Re: [HACKERS] Use of non-restart-safe storage by temp_tablespaces

On Tue, Jun  6, 2017 at 04:39:50AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

I was thinking that you could create the init fork for each unlogged

table in a permanent tablespace (probably the default one for the
database).

FWIW I don't think calling these tablespaces "temporary" is the right
word.  It's not the tablespaces that are temporary.  Maybe "evanescent".

I was thinking "transient".  Amazon uses "ephemeral".

Just dropping a translator result here:

[1] results of https://www.dict.cc/deutsch-englisch/fl%C3%BCchtig.html

What about VOLATILE like computer memory (RAM)?

Sven

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