On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:10:37PM +0200, PFC wrote: > Yes, but in this case temp tables add too much overhead. I wish > there were RAM based temp tables like in mysql. However I guess the > current temp table slowness comes from the need to mark their existence in > the system catalogs or something. That's why I proposed using cursors... It would be interesting to know what the bottleneck is for temp tables for you. They do not go via the buffer-cache, they are stored in private memory in the backend, they are not xlogged. Nor flushed to disk on backend exit. They're about as close to in-memory tables as you're going to get... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
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