Re: unlogged tables

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, marcin mank <marcin(dot)mank(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andy Colson <andy(at)squeakycode(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: unlogged tables
Date: 2010-11-17 19:16:06
Message-ID: 17317.1290021366@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Robert is probably going to object that he wanted to prevent any
>> fsyncing for unlogged tables, but the discussion over in pgsql-general
>> is crystal clear that people do NOT want to lose unlogged data over
>> a clean shutdown and restart. If all it takes to do that is to refrain
>> from lobotomizing the checkpoint logic for unlogged tables, I say we
>> should refrain.

> I think that's absolutely a bad idea.

The customer is always right, and I think we are hearing loud and clear
what the customers want. Please let's not go out of our way to create
a feature that isn't what they want.

regards, tom lane

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