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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: postgres performance list <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL as a local in-memory cache
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:56:42 -0700
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On 6/18/10 2:15 AM, Matthew Wakeling wrote:
> I'd like to point out the costs involved in having a whole separate
> "version" of Postgres that has all this safety switched off. Package
> managers will not thank anyone for having to distribute another version
> of the system, and woe betide the user who installs the wrong version
> because "it runs faster". No, this is much better as a configurable option.

Agreed, although initial alphas of this concept are likely to in fact be
a separate source code tree.  Eventually when we have it working well it
could become an initdb-time option.

-- 
                                  -- Josh Berkus
                                     PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
                                     http://www.pgexperts.com



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