Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Temp schemas are not destroyed on session shutdown; they are rather
> destroyed the next time the backend ID is reused.  Normally that's not a
> problem, because a backend ID is reused pretty soon.  It's only a
> problem when you use so high a backend ID due to high load, that a very
> long time passes before it's reused.  Those temp tables linger and can
> cause Xid wraparound problems.

Not correct --- ordinarily temp tables are removed at backend shutdown.
The only time that wouldn't happen is in event of a backend crash.  In
which case cleanup would happen at next use, as you describe.

The schemas are indeed left around, but they're empty in the normal case.

                        regards, tom lane

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