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To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Re: Postgres insert performance and storage requirement compared
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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