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Re: Temporary tablespaces on a RAM disk

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Hi  Laurenz,

>From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 20:50
>To: Daniel Westermann (DWE) <daniel.westermann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: Temporary tablespaces on a RAM disk
 
>On Tue, 2020-03-17 at 09:49 +0000, Daniel Westermann (DWE) wrote:
>> is someone using temporary tablespaces on a RAM disk ? Any experiences with that?
>> I did some quick tests and checked the archives but could not find any information that either confirmed it is a bad idea nor the opposite.

>Taking a step back, wouldn't it be better to increase "work_mem"
>and "temp_buffers" and set "temp_file_limit", so that temporary
>files are avoided whenever possible and temporary tables are cached?

I don't think you can avoid that for all cases, especially when working with large data sets. That was one of the reasons for my initial question.

>Then essentially you are using the same memory for the same purposes,
>but in a supported fashion.

Agreed.

Regards
Daniel

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