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From: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
To: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>
To: MichaelDBA <MichaelDBA@sqlexec.com>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Cc: PostgreSQL Performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: temporary file log lines
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 20:01:23 +0200
Message-ID: <64634f8c-1903-3328-291e-617a80096d02@enterprisedb.com> (raw)
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On 7/13/21 9:29 AM, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Le lun. 12 juil. 2021 à 14:13, MichaelDBA <MichaelDBA@sqlexec.com 
> <mailto:MichaelDBA@sqlexec.com>> a écrit :
> 
>     hmmm, I think spilling over to disk for temporary tables is handled by
>     an entirely different branch in the PG source code.  In fact, some
>     other
>     folks have chimed in and said log_temp_files doesn't relate to temp
>     files at all use by temporary tables, just queries as you mentioned
>     below elsewhere.  This seems to be a dark area of PG that is not
>     convered well.
> 
> 
> As far as I know, log_temp_files only relates to sort/hash going to 
> disks, not to temporary objects (tables and indexes).
> 

Right. log_temp_files does not cover temporary tables.


regards

-- 
Tomas Vondra
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company





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