On Friday, May 25, 2012 05:19:28 PM Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > > On Friday, May 25, 2012 04:03:49 PM Peter Geoghegan wrote: > >> Where do you suggest the file be written to? > > > > One could argue stats_temp_directory would be the correct place. > > No, that would be exactly the *wrong* place, because that directory can > be on a RAM disk. We need to put this somewhere where it'll survive > a shutdown. I had assumed it would do the writeout regularly to survive a database crash. As it does not do that my argument is clearly bogus, sorry for that.
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