Re: [WIP] GUC for temp_tablespaces

On 5/8/07, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> Am Samstag, 5. Mai 2007 16:40 schrieb Jaime Casanova:
> > On 5/5/07, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > > Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:
> >
> > This is final version of the patch (i hope), at least it fixes the
> > problem i had yesterday.
>
> What I have been missing all along in these patches is an explanation for what
> it means to list multiple temporary tablespaces. Are they used in order, or
> the first one that exists, or what?
>

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg00531.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-01/msg00282.php

in src/backend/commands/tablespace.c:assign_temp_tablespaces():

/*
* Select the first tablespace to use
*/
Assert(num_temp_tablespaces >= 0);
if (num_temp_tablespaces != 0)
next_temp_tablespace = MyProcPid % num_temp_tablespaces;

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Jaime Casanova

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