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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: pgsql-committers@postgresql.org, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>
Subject: Re: pgsql: Remove BufFile's isTemp flag.
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 13:09:26 -0500
Message-ID: <12525.1510942166@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171117175811.qgrs75pgyhl42kgr@alap3.anarazel.de>
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2017-11-17 11:23:54 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Or maybe we should revert 11e264517.  It doesn't seem to be buying
>> much to make up for the loss of flexibility.

> There's a bunch of work adding new functionality to buffile.c
> pending. And having code paths that have been dead for 10+ years around
> and maintaining them in working order doesn't seem like a good use of
> time.

OK, if there's active work going on in the area, that's a good reason
to simplify.  But let's get rid of all vestiges of the old non-temp
semantics.

			regards, tom lane




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