Re: pgsql: Remove BufFile's isTemp flag.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: pgsql: Remove BufFile's isTemp flag.
Date: 2017-11-17 18:09:26
Message-ID: 12525.1510942166@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2017-11-17 11:23:54 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Or maybe we should revert 11e264517. It doesn't seem to be buying
>> much to make up for the loss of flexibility.

> There's a bunch of work adding new functionality to buffile.c
> pending. And having code paths that have been dead for 10+ years around
> and maintaining them in working order doesn't seem like a good use of
> time.

OK, if there's active work going on in the area, that's a good reason
to simplify. But let's get rid of all vestiges of the old non-temp
semantics.

regards, tom lane

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