Re: Index build temp files

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2013-01-09T20:53:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
* Simon Riggs (simon@2ndQuadrant.com) wrote:
> I think we need to allow a TEMP permission on tablespaces, so that you
> aren't allowed to create normal objects but you can create TEMP
> objects and sort files there.

I agree that this would be valuable.  Would we end up needing to burn
another bit off the aclmask though?  That's certainly been a concern in
the past and I don't recall that we ever improved that situation.

> I think SHOW temp_tablespaces should only show the valid tablespaces,
> not all of the ones actually listed in the parameter, otherwise you
> have no clue that the parameter setting is ineffectual for you.

I like this as well.

	Thanks,

		Stephen