On 2008-06-06 07:25, Brent Wood wrote: > Would "real" tables in a tablespace defined on a ramdisk meet this > need? Bad idea. This would mean an unusable database after a restart. > You could also mount a tablespace on a physical disk with a > filesystem which has delayed/deferred writes to disk Not a vary good idea. This could mean an unusable database after a crash or power failure. Regards Tometzky -- ...although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were... Winnie the Pooh