Re: GSoC proposal - "make an unlogged table logged"

On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:
>
> On 2014-03-04 12:54:02 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:
> > > On 2014-03-04 09:47:08 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> > > Can't that be solved by just creating the permanent relation in a new
> > > relfilenode? That's equivalent to a rewrite, yes, but we need to do
that
> > > for anything but wal_level=minimal anyway.
> >
> > Yes, that would work. I've tended to view optimizing away the
> > relfilenode copy as an indispensable part of this work, but that might
> > be wrongheaded. It would certainly be a lot easier to make this
> > happen if we didn't insist on that.
>
> I think it'd already much better than today's situation, and it's a
> required codepath for wal_level > logical anyway. So even if somebody
> wants to make this work without the full copy for minimal, it'd still be
> a required codepath. So I am perfectly ok with a patch just adding that.
>

Then is this a good idea for a GSoC project ?

I don't know very well this internals, but I am willing to learn and I
think the GSoC is a good opportunity.

Any of you are willing to mentoring this project?

Regards,

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