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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: gnanam@zoniac.com
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Autovacuum daemon & TEMPORARY tables
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:24:48 -0400
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"Gnanakumar" <gnanam@zoniac.com> writes:
> Does autovacuum daemon work on tables created with TEMPORARY syntax?

No.  It can't, because it's unsafe for any session except the creating
session to touch a temporary table.  The performance optimizations used
for temp tables have that unfortunate side-effect.

			regards, tom lane



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