Daniel Westermann wrote:

> is someone using temporary tablespaces on a RAM disk ? Any experiences with 
> that?

> I did some quick tests and checked the archives but could not find any 
> information that either confirmed it is a bad idea nor the opposite.





>Well, we point our "stats_temp_directory" to a tmpfs partition, which is 
>probably fairly common (or so I'd guess).

>But a full tablespace with tables and everything? That sounds pretty risky for 
>anything other than a place to store

>data for transformation or summary of data that could be recreated by 
>restarting a process if the server goes down

>in the middle.



>I think you'd be better off explaining what your goal is and then people could 
>give you better comments.




Thank you for the hint with stats_temp_directory. I am only talking about 
temp_tablespaces which are supposed for temporary objects only. It is pretty 
clear not to use that for persistent objects, I know.


Regards

Daniel

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