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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:27:43 -0600
From: Andy Colson <andy@squeakycode.net>
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To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Running PostgreSQL as fast as possible no matter the consequences
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On 11/15/2010 9:06 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> In 9.1, I'm hopeful that we'll have unlogged tables, which will even
> better than turning these parameters off, and for which I just posted
> a patch to -hackers.  Instead of generating WAL and writing WAL to the
> OS and then NOT trying to make sure it hits the disk, we just won't
> generate it in the first place.  But if PostgreSQL or the machine it's
> running on crashes, you won't need to completely blow away the cluster
> and start over; instead, the particular tables that you chose to
> create as unlogged will be truncated, and the rest of your data,
> including the system catalogs, will still be intact.
>

if I am reading this right means: we can run our db safely (with fsync 
and full_page_writes enabled) except for tables of our choosing?

If so, I am very +1 for this!

-Andy