Re: Index build temp files

On 10 January 2013 02:36, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 03:20:33PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> What would people think of just eliminating the access-permissions
>> checks involved in temp_tablespaces? It would likely be appropriate to
>> change temp_tablespaces from USERSET to SUSET if we did so. So
>> essentially the worldview would become that the DBA is responsible for
>> the temp_tablespaces setting, not individual users.
>
> Allowing that the new behavior could be clearer, that gain is too small to
> justify the application compatibility hazard of making temp_tablespaces SUSET.
> I don't see something we can do here that clearly improves things overall.

Can't we do both behaviours? Skip permissions if using a value form
.conf, but don't if the user sets it themselves.

Having it USERSET allows different settings for different roles, which
is useful.

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