Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> BTW, I wonder whether the code that checks for relfilenode conflict >> when selecting a pg_class or relfilenode OID tries both file naming >> conventions? If not, should we make it do so?
> I don't believe it does, nor do I see what we would gain by making it to do > so. What we would gain is ensuring that we aren't using the same relfilenode for both a regular table and a temp table. Do you really want to assume that such a conflict is 100% safe? It sounds pretty scary to me, and even if we were sure the backend would never get confused, what about client-side code that's looking at relfilenode? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers