Re: idea: global temp tables

Pavel Stehule escribió:
> Hello
>
> I am thinking about global temp tables. One possible solution is
> creating global temporary table like normal table and in planner stage
> check using this table. When some global temporary table is detected,
> then real temporary table is created and used in execution plan. It's
> like:
>
> CREATE GLOBAL TEMP TABLE foo(a varchar); -- create global empty table foo
> SELECT * FROM foo;
> a) is relevant temp table for foo, use it
> a) when not, then CREATE TEMP TABLE pg_temp_1.foo(LIKE foo INCLUDING
> DEFAULTS INCLUDING CONSTRAINTS INCLUDING INDEXES);
> b) transform origin query to SELECT * FROM pg_temp_1.foo;
>
> Ideas? Notes? Objections?

Maybe we could make this work by fiddling with a different smgr -- on
it, smgr_sync would be a noop, as would smgr_immedsync, and we could
kludge something up to truncate relations during recovery.

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