On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 16:52, Tom Lane wrote: > Hannu Krosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is "PROC array slot number" something internal to postgres ? > > Yes. > > If we used PID then we'd eventually have 64K (or whatever the range of > PIDs is on your platform) different pg_temp_nnn entries cluttering > pg_namespace.
Should they not be cleaned up at backend exit even when they are in range 1..MaxBackends ? > But we only need MaxBackends different entries at any one > time. So the correct nnn value is 1..MaxBackends. BackendId meets the > need perfectly. ---------- Hannu ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org