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To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: doc: create table improvements
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 07:45:47 -0700
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On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 3:30 AM Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
wrote:
> > + The reliability characteristics of a table are governed by its
> > + persistence mode. The default mode is described
> > + <link linkend="wal-reliability">here</link>
> > + There are two alternative modes that can be specified during
> > + table creation:
> > + <link linkend="sql-createtable-temporary">temporary</link> and
> > + <link linkend="sql-createtable-unlogged">unlogged</link>.
>
> Not sure reliability is the best word here. I mean, a temporary table
> isn't any less reliable than any other table. It just does different
> things.
>
>
Given the name of the section where this is all discussed I'm having
trouble going with a different word. But better framing and phrasing I can
do:
A table may be opted out of certain storage aspects of reliability, as
described [here], by specifying either of the alternate persistence modes:
[temporary] or [logged]. The specific trade-offs and implications are
detailed below.
David J.
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