Re: global temporary tables
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Jim Nasby <decibel@decibel.org>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-04-25T03:02:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes: > Pushing it into the RelFileNode has some advantages in terms of being > able to get at the information from everywhere, but one thing that > makes me think that's probably not a good decision is that we somtimes > WAL-log relfilenodes. And WAL-logging the value of the isTemp flag is > a waste, because if we're WAL-logging, it's zero. Yeah. I think we also use RelFileNode as a hash tag in places, and so adding a bool to it would be problematic for a couple of reasons: possibly uninitialized pad bytes, and uselessly incorporating more bytes into the hash calculation. regards, tom lane