Re: [Proposal] Global temporary tables

Jacob Champion <jchampion@timescale.com>

From: Jacob Champion <jchampion@timescale.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, wenjing@gmail.com, Andrew Bille <andrewbille@gmail.com>, Tony Zhu <Tony.zhu@ww-it.cn>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-06-30T20:54:39Z
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 3/3/22 13:20, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2022-03-03 16:07:37 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
>> I agree that the feature is desirable, but I think getting there is
>> going to require a huge amount of effort that may amount to a total
>> rewrite of the patch.
> 
> Agreed. I think this needs very fundamental design work, and the patch itself
> isn't worth reviewing until that's tackled.

Given two opinions that the patch can't be effectively reviewed as-is, I
will mark this RwF for this commitfest. Anyone up for shepherding the
design conversations, going forward?

--Jacob