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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Re: Postgres insert performance and storage requirement compared to Oracle
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:32:25 -0400
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> Gee, I wonder if it would possible for PG to automatically do an
> asynchronous commit of any transaction which touches only temp tables.

Hmm ... do we need a commit at all in such a case?  If our XID has only
gone into temp tables, I think we need to write to clog, but we don't
really need a WAL entry, synced or otherwise.

			regards, tom lane



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