Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 11:29 AM Alvaro Herrera
> <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> I think the best way to fix this is to call RemoveTempRelations()
>> unconditionally at session start (without doing the rest of the temp
>> table setup, just the removal.)
> That would certainly simplify things. I think I thought about that as
> far back as a734fd5d1c309cc553b7c8c79fba96218af090f7 but it seemed
> like a significant behavior change and I wasn't sure that everyone
> would like it. In particular, it adds overhead to backend startup
> that, in the case of a large temp schema, could be fairly long.
> Nevertheless, I tentatively think that a change like this is a good
> idea. I wouldn't back-patch it, though.
I seem to recall discussions about having crash recovery go around
and clean out temp tables. That seems like a better plan than
penalizing every session start with this.
regards, tom lane
