Re: Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add GUC temp_tablespaces to provide a default location for

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jaime Casanova <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com>, Albert Cervera Areny <albertca(at)hotpop(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add GUC temp_tablespaces to provide a default location for
Date: 2007-04-02 22:57:44
Message-ID: 200704022257.l32Mvik15073@momjian.us
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> OK, patch reverted. Authors, would you please resubmit with fixes?
> Thanks.
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> Tom Lane wrote:
> > momjian(at)postgresql(dot)org (Bruce Momjian) writes:
> > > Add GUC temp_tablespaces to provide a default location for temporary
> > > objects.
> > > Jaime Casanova
> >
> > I hadn't looked at this patch before, but now that I have, it is
> > rather broken.
> >
> > In the first place, it makes no provision for RemovePgTempFiles() to
> > clean up leftover temp files that are in non-default places.
> >
> > In the second place, it's a serious violation of what little modularity
> > and layering we have for fd.c to be calling into commands/tablespace.c.
> > This is not merely cosmetic but has real consequences: one being that
> > it's now unsafe to call OpenTemporaryFile outside a transaction.
> >
> > Please revert until the submitter can come up with a better-designed
> > patch.
> >
> > regards, tom lane
> >
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