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Re: Unlogged vs. In-Memory

Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>

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From: Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>, PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-05-13T21:03:50Z
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On 13 May 2011 21:56, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> It has bothered me that "unlogged tables" are explained using their
> implementation (logged), rather than their behavior (non-durable).  How
> is "Non-Durabble Tables" for a name?

Unlogged tables still sounds fine to me.  It's simple and accurate,
and it will be familiar to anyone who's disabled journalling on a
filesystem. (i.e. trading crash-safety for speed).

Non-durable just sounds like it'll eventually wear out like a cheap tyre.

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