| From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andy Colson <andy(at)squeakycode(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: unlogged tables |
| Date: | 2010-12-08 15:19:07 |
| Message-ID: | 1291821547.2872.920.camel@ebony |
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On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 13:17 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > I'm also going to go through and change all instances of the word
> > "unlogged" to "volatile", per previous discussion. If this seems like
> > a bad idea to anyone, please object now rather than afterwards.
>
> Hm... I thought there had been discussion of a couple of different
> flavors of table volatility. Is it really a good idea to commandeer
> the word "volatile" for this particular one?
Note that DB2 uses the table modifier VOLATILE to indicate a table that
has a widely fluctuating table size, for example a queue table. It's
used as a declarative optimizer hint. So the term has many possible
meanings.
Prefer UNLOGGED or similar descriptive term.
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Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/books/
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