Re: GSoC proposal - "make an unlogged table logged"

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
Cc: fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: GSoC proposal - "make an unlogged table logged"
Date: 2014-03-03 20:47:21
Message-ID: 20140303204721.GF17253@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2014-03-03 12:44:26 -0800, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Fabrízio de Royes Mello
> <fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > Is the TODO item "make an unlogged table logged" [1] a good GSoC project?
>
> Another interesting project around unlogged tables would be to make it
> possible to have unlogged indexes on fully-logged tables. That is
> something that there was some discussion of before, that might be
> easier.

I'd actually say it's harder because it requires modifying the catalog
or transparently introducing hacks similar to what unlogged matviews are
doing, to make sure the index is marked invalid after a crash restart.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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