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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: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, marcin mank <marcin.mank@gmail.com>, Andy Colson <andy@squeakycode.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-11-17T15:11:51Z
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Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> fsync()ing the file at shutdown doesn't seem too bad to me from 
> performance point of view, we tolerate that for all other tables. And 
> you can always truncate the table yourself before shutdown.

The objection to that was not about performance.  It was about how
to find out what needs to be fsync'd.

			regards, tom lane