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Re: unlogged tables

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, marcin mank <marcin.mank@gmail.com>, Andy Colson <andy@squeakycode.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-11-17T19:16:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Robert is probably going to object that he wanted to prevent any
>> fsyncing for unlogged tables, but the discussion over in pgsql-general
>> is crystal clear that people do NOT want to lose unlogged data over
>> a clean shutdown and restart. If all it takes to do that is to refrain
>> from lobotomizing the checkpoint logic for unlogged tables, I say we
>> should refrain.

> I think that's absolutely a bad idea.

The customer is always right, and I think we are hearing loud and clear
what the customers want.  Please let's not go out of our way to create
a feature that isn't what they want.

			regards, tom lane