Received: from localhost (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62F3D9FA2D7 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 17:00:52 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 88228-08 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 17:00:45 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from skynet.simkin.ca (skynet.simkin.ca [72.51.27.117]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 331E39FA2DF for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 17:00:48 -0300 (ADT) Received: from crecy.medialogik.com (ah.medialogik.com [72.51.27.120]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by skynet.simkin.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6C8C4A3C for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 13:00:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan Hodgson Organization: Simkin Network Consulting To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Equivalents in PostgreSQL of MySQL's "ENGINE=MEMORY" "MAX_ROWS=1000" Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 13:00:45 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <4612A421.4060808@andromeiberica.com> <4612AD87.1040406@netsyncro.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704031300.46013@hal.medialogik.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200704/32 X-Sequence-Number: 23909 On Tuesday 03 April 2007 12:47, "A.M." wrote: > On Apr 3, 2007, at 15:39 , C. Bergstr=F6m wrote: > I would like to use transactional semantics over tables that can > disappear whenever the server fails. memcached does not offer that. How would temporary tables? =2D-=20 Ginsberg's Theorem: 1) You can't win. 2) You can't break even. 3) You can't quit the game.