On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 7:53 AM, Rick Otten <rottenwindfish@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > side note: The disadvantage of local SSD is that it won't survive "hitting > the virtual power button" on an instance, nor can it migrate automatically > to other hardware. (We have to hit the power button to add memory/cpu to > the system, and sometimes the power button might get hit by accident.) This > is OK for temp space. I never have my database come up automatically on > boot, and I have scripted the entire setup of the temp space volume and data > structures. I can run that script before starting the database. I've done > some tests and it seems to work great. I don't mind rolling back any > transaction that might be in play during a power failure. It sounds like you're treating a temp_tablespaces tablespace as ephemeral, which IIRC can have problems that an ephemeral stats_temp_directory does not have. -- Peter Geoghegan
