Re: global temporary tables

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Unfortunately, I don't see much alternative to making smgr know
>>> something about the temp-ness of the relation, though I'm hoping to
>>> keep the smgr surgery to an absolute minimum.  Maybe what we could do
>>> is incorporate the backend ID or PID into the file name when the
>>> relation is temp.  Then we could scan for and nuke such files pretty
>>> easily.  Otherwise I can't really think how to make it work.
>>
>> I think that could be a really good idea, mainly because it makes
>> post-crash cleanup MUCH safer: you can tell with certainty from the
>> filename that it's a leftover temp table.  The notion of zapping files
>> just because we don't see them listed in pg_class has always scared the
>> heck out of me.
>>
>> We already know temp-ness at pretty low levels, like bufmgr vs localbuf.
>> Pushing it all the way down to smgr doesn't seem like a leap; in fact
>> I think it would eliminate a separate isTemp parameter in a lot of places.
>
> Eh?  I don't see how it's going to do that.

Oh, maybe I do see.  If we pass it to smgropen() and stash it in the
SMgrRelation, we don't have to keep supplying it later on, maybe?

Will investigate further.

...Robert