Re: global temporary tables

On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 06:50 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 19:01 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> >
> >> There is one major problem, though: assigning a
> >> scratch relfilenode to the temporary table requires generating an OID,
> >> which we currently have no way to allow on the standby.
> >
> > Why not have an unlogged counter, which resets each system start, using
> > same datatype as an oid. There's no necessity for the relfilenode to be
> > an actual oid is there?
> >
> > That way we could use it on standbys also.
>
> I don't think that quite works, because the standby might assign a
> relfilenode number for a global temp table and then the master might
> subsequently assign the same relfilenode number to a regular table.
> We might be able to make that not matter, but it's far from obvious to
> me that there are no gotchas there...

That sounds fairly simple to solve.

All I am saying is please include "working on the standby" as part of
your requirement.

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