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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Cc: alecz@berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: Might be worth mentioning that temp_tablespaces can contain duplicate values
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 15:13:53 -0400
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On 7/5/16 9:43 PM, alecz@berkeley.edu wrote:
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/runtime-config-client.html
> Description:
> 
> The section on temp_tablespaces is here:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/runtime-config-client.html
> 
> I&#39;ve tried setting temp_tablespaces with duplicate entries and have found
> that it keeps those duplicates, making that entry used more frequently. This
> is useful if the user wants to use one tablespace more frequently than
> others. Example: &quot;tablespace1, tablespace1, tablespace2&quot; It&#39;ll pick
> tablespace1 about 2X as often as tablespace2. 
> 
> Support for duplicate values isn&#39;t explicitly mentioned in the
> documentation, but I inferred it from the wording about the parameter being
> a &quot;list.&quot; But I had to go test to make sure it would work as I thought.

Anyone have concerns about explicitly documenting this behavior?  Seems
possibly useful to me.

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Peter Eisentraut              http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services


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