Re: Index build temp files

From: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Index build temp files
Date: 2013-01-10 02:36:55
Message-ID: 20130110023655.GB11600@tornado.leadboat.com
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On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 03:20:33PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> What would people think of just eliminating the access-permissions
> checks involved in temp_tablespaces? It would likely be appropriate to
> change temp_tablespaces from USERSET to SUSET if we did so. So
> essentially the worldview would become that the DBA is responsible for
> the temp_tablespaces setting, not individual users.

Allowing that the new behavior could be clearer, that gain is too small to
justify the application compatibility hazard of making temp_tablespaces SUSET.
I don't see something we can do here that clearly improves things overall.

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