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Re: unlogged tables

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-11-16T22:08:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On tis, 2010-11-16 at 14:00 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> It seems to me
> that most people using unlogged tables won't want to back them up ...
> especially since the share lock for pgdump will add overhead for the
> kinds of high-volume updates people want to do with unlogged tables.

Or perhaps most people will want them backed up, because them being
unlogged the backup is the only way to get them back in case of a crash?