Re: pgsql: Remove BufFile's isTemp flag. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pgsql: Remove BufFile's isTemp flag.
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Msg-id 23339.1510887494@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to pgsql: Remove BufFile's isTemp flag.  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> Remove BufFile's isTemp flag.
> The isTemp flag controls whether buffile.c chops BufFile data up into
> 1GB segments on disk.  Since it was badly named and always true, get
> rid of it.

[ squint... ]  That used to have an actual purpose connected to
transaction-abort cleanup, IIRC.  It disturbs me that this seems
to have been lost.
        regards, tom lane


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