Re: removal of dangling temp tables

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: "Tsunakawa, Takayuki" <tsunakawa.takay@jp.fujitsu.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-12-28T13:25:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2018-Dec-28, Michael Paquier wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 12:05:34AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > The server code allocates arrays, but that's fine because that code is
> > recompiled.  Extensions only pass pointers around -- they don't create
> > any additional arrays.
> 
> There are many exotic extensions which could be using sizeof(PGPROC)
> as that's a popular structure,

Can you show one instance of this?

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Commits

  1. Have DISCARD ALL/TEMP remove leftover temp tables

  2. Make autovacuum more selective about temp tables to keep

  3. Make autovacuum more aggressive to remove orphaned temp tables

  4. autovacuum: Drop orphan temp tables more quickly but with more caution.