Re: [Bizgres-general] WAL bypass for INSERT, UPDATE and

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Qingqing Zhou" <zhouqq@cs.toronto.edu>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-12-23T00:29:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
"Qingqing Zhou" <zhouqq@cs.toronto.edu> writes:
> BEGIN TRANSACTION WITHOUT XLOG;    /* forbidden vacuum, PITR etc */

> So during this peroid, if any transaction failed, the only consequence is 
> add invisible garbage data.

No, the likely consequence is irretrievable corruption of any table or
index page touched by the transaction.  You're going to have a very hard
time selling this as a good idea.

			regards, tom lane