On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 3. With respect to unlogged tables, the major obstacle seems to be
> figuring out a way for these to get automatically truncated at startup
> time.
>
(please forgive what is probably a stupid question)
By truncate do mean reduce the table to a very small number (or zero) number
of pages? Is there a case to be made for instead somehow marking all pages
as available for reuse? Deallocating and reallocating space can be
expensive.
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Rob Wultsch
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