From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: pgsql-committers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Remove BufFile's isTemp flag.
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 21:58:14 -0500
Message-ID: <23339.1510887494@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1eFVyl-0008J1-RO@gemulon.postgresql.org>
References: <E1eFVyl-0008J1-RO@gemulon.postgresql.org>
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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