Re: Unlogged tables, persistent kind

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Leonardo Francalanci <m_lists(at)yahoo(dot)it>
Cc: tgl <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Unlogged tables, persistent kind
Date: 2011-04-25 08:54:45
Message-ID: BANLkTin72VMykDBjMsD4Md7BhO4FmcjrLw@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Leonardo Francalanci <m_lists(at)yahoo(dot)it> wrote:
> The only data we can't rebuild it's the heap. So what about an option for UNlogged indexes on a LOGged table? It would always preserve data, and it would 'only' cost a rebuilding of the indexes in case of an unclean shutdown. I think it would give a boost in performance for all those cases where the IO (especially random IO) is caused by the indexes, and it doesn't look too complicated (but maybe I'm missing something).
>
> I proposed the unlogged to logged patch (BTW has anyone given a look at it?) because we partition data based on a timestamp, and we can risk loosing the last N minutes of data, but after N minutes we want to know data will always be there, so we would like to set a partition table to 'logged'.

I agree that unlogged indexes on a logged heap are better for
resilience and are likely to be the best first step.

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