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Re: Unlogged vs. In-Memory

Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais <ioguix@free.fr>

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From: "Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais" <ioguix@free.fr>
To: Rob Wultsch <wultsch@gmail.com>
Cc: damien clochard <damien@dalibo.info>, Roy Hann <specially@processed.almost.meat>, pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-05-05T15:47:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 05/05/2011 17:36, Rob Wultsch wrote:
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 5:36 AM, Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais
> <ioguix@free.fr>  wrote:
>> Yeah, but volatile means « lost on shutdown », which is not the case here
>> during a clean shutdown.
>
> Isn't that how the table should be treated though?

sure.

But imho, this "volatile tables" implies too many wrong ideas:

   * lost on clean shutdown
   * only in memory (sounds familiar)
   * not on disk