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Re: Temporary tablespaces on a RAM disk

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>"Daniel Westermann (DWE)" <daniel.westermann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>>> People have asked about this before, so maybe it'd be an idea to make
>>> an explicit concept of a temp tablespace that only accepts temp tables,
>>> and do whatever is needful to make that robust.  But I've not heard of
>>> any work towards that.

>> That's what I thought temp_tablespaces are for ( plus sorts, temporary files getting created by materialized views ... )

>No ... temp_tablespaces says it's okay to use any of the listed
>tablespaces to keep temporary working files in, but it doesn't
>say that those tablespaces can *only* be used for that.

Ok, understood. For me, at least, it sounds weird to put anything other than real temporary stuff in there.

>The whole business of temp tables (as opposed to those invisible-to-SQL
>working files) in such a tablespace is a separate issue, too.  I think
>that the server would mostly survive having temp-table files disappear
>during reboot, but it's not an officially supported or tested scenario.

Thank you, that is what I wanted to know. I works for all the cases I tested, but it is not officially supported.

Regards
Daniel

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