Re: Autovacuum daemon & TEMPORARY tables

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: gnanam(at)zoniac(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Autovacuum daemon & TEMPORARY tables
Date: 2010-08-25 14:24:48
Message-ID: 19499.1282746288@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Gnanakumar" <gnanam(at)zoniac(dot)com> writes:
> Does autovacuum daemon work on tables created with TEMPORARY syntax?

No. It can't, because it's unsafe for any session except the creating
session to touch a temporary table. The performance optimizations used
for temp tables have that unfortunate side-effect.

regards, tom lane

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