From: | Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> |
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To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
Cc: | "Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais" <ioguix(at)free(dot)fr>, damien clochard <damien(at)dalibo(dot)info>, Roy Hann <specially(at)processed(dot)almost(dot)meat>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, Rob Wultsch <wultsch(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: Unlogged vs. In-Memory |
Date: | 2011-05-05 18:28:23 |
Message-ID: | BANLkTinAOKPyqfh3V5U8Kb3=WaHSrMBoRQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On 5 May 2011 19:17, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Saying "similar to in-memory tables" sounds immediately misleading to
>> me. If I didn't know any better, I'd assume:
>
> We can be perfectly technically correct, or we can have people who
> aren't already PostgreSQL users get interested enough to try our stuff.
> There is no third choice.
>
> 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. 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.
How about my original suggestion which is: tables that sacrifice
crash-safety for speed... or much faster tables at the expense of
crash-safety? A sub-note to that could be that in the unlikely event
of a crash, the table data will be lost, but not the table.
I personally haven't used "in-memory" tables, so may be appropriate to
the DBA demographic. It doesn't sound right in my head though.
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