Re: Partitioning with temp tables is broken

Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com>

From: amul sul <sulamul@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com>, David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Date: 2018-06-13T16:55:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018, 8:34 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> > [ lots o' problems with $subject ]
>
> > But a larger question is what use such temporary partitions are?
> > Should we just prohibit adding temporary partitions to a permanant
> > partitioned table? We should allow adding temporary partitions to a
> > temporary partitioned table if only they both belong to the same
> > session.
>
> Even if you want to argue that there's a use case for these situations,
> it seems far too late in the release cycle to be trying to fix all these
> issues.  I think we need to forbid the problematic cases for now, and
> leave relaxing the prohibition to be treated as a future new feature.
>


+1, forbid the problematic case.

Regards,
Amul
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Commits

  1. Clarify use of temporary tables within partition trees