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

On May 29, 2017 12:15:37 PM PDT, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>Claudio Freire wrote:
>> On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
>wrote:
>> > Right now we don't document that temp_tablespaces can use
>> > non-restart-safe storage, e.g. /tmp, ramdisks.  Would this be safe?
>> > Should we document this?
>>
>> I have set up things like that, but it's nontrivial.
>
>I think it'd be smart to support the use case directly, because there's
>interest in it being actually supported (unlike the statu quo).
>Something like restoring the tablespace to the empty state on boot, if
>it's known to need it.

Has the danger of making recovery harder after a restart where somebody forgot to mount some subdirectory ...

Andres
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