Re: Unlogged vs. In-Memory

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>,"Thom Brown" <thom(at)linux(dot)com>
Cc: "damien clochard" <damien(at)dalibo(dot)info>, "Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais" <ioguix(at)free(dot)fr>, "Rob Wultsch" <wultsch(at)gmail(dot)com>, <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Roy Hann" <specially(at)processed(dot)almost(dot)meat>
Subject: Re: Unlogged vs. In-Memory
Date: 2011-05-05 18:27:03
Message-ID: 4DC2A5A7020000250003D30F@gw.wicourts.gov
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Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:

> So far, the only suggestions I've seen for how to advocate this
> feature have involved renaming it, which isn't realistic at this
> point.

Agreed; we are talking about describing it concisely.

> If someone has an alternative description for the feature that
> anyone who is not already a PostgreSQL DBA will care about, them
> please come forward with it.

The similarities to a GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE are striking enough
that perhaps it should play off that somehow. It is a lot like a
SHARED GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE. The only thing to add to that is
that on a clean shutdown the system will save the contents for
reload on startup, whereas a crash will clear it.

-Kevin

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