Re: [Proposal] Global temporary tables

Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>

From: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Konstantin Knizhnik <k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru>, 曾文旌(义从) <wenjing.zwj@alibaba-inc.com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, 蔡松露(子嘉) <zijia@taobao.com>, "Cai, Le" <le.cai@alibaba-inc.com>, 萧少聪(铁庵) <shaocong.xsc@alibaba-inc.com>
Date: 2020-01-13T20:12:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. PageAddItemExtended(): Add LP_UNUSED assertion.

  2. Remove temporary files after backend crash

  3. Fix comment in indexing.c

  4. Fix failure to ignore leftover temp tables after a server crash.

On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 05:32:53PM +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 11:08:40AM +0300, Konstantin Knizhnik wrote:
> >
> >"if any code tried to access the statistics directly from the table, 
> >rather than via the caches".
> >
> >Currently optimizer is accessing statistic though caches. So this 
> >approach works. If somebody will rewrite optimizer or provide own 
> >custom optimizer in extension which access statistic directly
> >then it we really be a problem. But I wonder why bypassing catalog 
> >cache may be needed.
> >
> 
> I don't know, but it seems extensions like hypopg do it.

AFAIR, hypopg only opens pg_statistic to use its tupledesc when creating
statistics on hypothetical partitions, but it should otherwise never reads or
need plain pg_statistic rows.