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