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

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>, Qingqing Zhou <zhouqq(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [Bizgres-general] WAL bypass for INSERT, UPDATE and
Date: 2006-02-07 02:24:31
Message-ID: 43E804DF.5020408@familyhealth.com.au
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> * Allow WAL logging to be turned off for a table, but the table
> might be dropped or truncated during crash recovery [walcontrol]
>
> Allow tables to bypass WAL writes and just fsync() dirty pages on
> commit. This should be implemented using ALTER TABLE, e.g. ALTER
> TABLE PERSISTENCE [ DROP | TRUNCATE | DEFAULT ]. Tables using
> non-default logging should not use referential integrity with
> default-logging tables. A table without dirty buffers during a
> crash could perhaps avoid the drop/truncate.

This would be such a sweet feature for website session tables...

Chris

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