Jim Nasby wrote: > Yeah, this is not something that would be very easy to accomplish, because a > buffer can get evicted and written to disk at any point. It wouldn't be too > hard to read every unlogged table during recovery and see if there are any > pages that were written after the last checkpoint, but that obviously won't > be very fast. If you consider only tables, then yeah perhaps this is easy to accomplish (not really convinced myself). But if you consider indexes, things are not so easy anymore. In the thread from 2011 (which this started as a reply to) the OP was doing frequent UPDATEs to keep track of counts of something. I think that would be better served by using INSERTs of deltas and periodic accumulation of grouped values, as suggested in http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20150305211601.GW3291@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx This has actually been suggested many times over the years. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
