On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 6:50 PM, Mark Dilger <hornschnor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On May 29, 2017, at 11:53 AM, Bruce Momjian <br...@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? > > The only safe way to do temporary tablespaces that I have found is to extend > the grammar to allow CREATE TEMPORARY TABLESPACE, and then refuse > to allow the creation of any non-tempoary table (or index on same) in that > tablespace. Otherwise, it is too easy to be surprised to discover that your > table contents have gone missing.
I think this would be a sensible approach. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
