Re: unnailing shared relations (was Re: global temporary tables)

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: unnailing shared relations (was Re: global temporary tables)
Date: 2010-05-24 21:37:04
Message-ID: 1274736935-sup-4829@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of lun may 24 17:18:21 -0400 2010:
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
> > Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of vie may 21 10:20:38 -0400 2010:

> > Uh, how does this work when you change the entries for shared relations
> > in a database-specific pg_class?  Keeping everything in sync seems hard,
> > if not impossible.
>
> Well, I might be missing something here, but pg_class already IS
> database-specific. If you change anything very significant about a
> shared rel in one copy of pg_class today, you're toast, IIUC. This
> proposal doesn't make that any better, but I don't think it makes it
> any worse either.

I thought the whole point of this exercise was precisely to avoid this
sort of problem.

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>

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