On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Andy Colson <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/15/2010 9:06 AM, Robert Haas wrote: >> >> In 9.1, I'm hopeful that we'll have unlogged tables, which will even >> better than turning these parameters off, and for which I just posted >> a patch to -hackers. Instead of generating WAL and writing WAL to the >> OS and then NOT trying to make sure it hits the disk, we just won't >> generate it in the first place. But if PostgreSQL or the machine it's >> running on crashes, you won't need to completely blow away the cluster >> and start over; instead, the particular tables that you chose to >> create as unlogged will be truncated, and the rest of your data, >> including the system catalogs, will still be intact. >> > > if I am reading this right means: we can run our db safely (with fsync and > full_page_writes enabled) except for tables of our choosing? > > If so, I am very +1 for this! Yep. But we need some vic^H^Holunteers to reviews and test the patches. https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=424 Code review, benchmarking, or just general tinkering and reporting what you find out on the -hackers thread would be appreciated. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
