Re: database design with temporary tables

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
To: Mladen Gogala <gogala(dot)mladen(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: database design with temporary tables
Date: 2021-08-29 18:26:25
Message-ID: c445dbed-f832-273a-c183-afb7a41b5186@aklaver.com
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On 8/29/21 10:41 AM, Mladen Gogala wrote:
>
> On 8/29/21 12:24 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>> Presumably not. Temporary tables only live at most for the length of a
>> session. It would be a really bad idea to hold sessions open for 24
>> hours. That is assuming nothing else causes the session to drop and
>> the data to be lost.
>
> Well, that's precisely how application servers work. The allocate
> connection pool and keep them open for a very long time.

The pool is maintained, the individual connections(sessions) come and
go. Otherwise there would be no point to having a pool. Every time the
connection(session) is closed the temporary table disappears.

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Adrian Klaver
adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com

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