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Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 10/21/15 3:28 PM, Jonathan Vanasco wrote:
>> Transactions and table-locking issues are probably why temporary indexes don't exist.

> I think it's more that no one has proposed it until now. It probably 
> wouldn't be terribly hard to add them... the biggest issue would 
> probably be changing the buffer management code so it didn't assume that 
> a temporary relation went into temporary buffers.

Uh, why would you do that?  You'd be throwing away one of the principal
performance advantages of temp tables.

			regards, tom lane


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