Re: unlogged tables

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Kenneth Marshall <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, marcin mank <marcin(dot)mank(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andy Colson <andy(at)squeakycode(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: unlogged tables
Date: 2010-11-17 20:58:46
Message-ID: 20101117205846.GA13723@fetter.org
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On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 03:48:52PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 11/17/2010 03:37 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> >I don't particularly care for the name UNSYNCED, and I'm starting
> >not to like UNLOGGED much either, although at least that one is an
> >actual word. PERMANENT and the flavors of TEMPORARY are a
> >reasonably comprehensible as a description of user-visible
> >behavior, but UNLOGGED and UNSYNCED sounds a lot like they're
> >discussing internal details that the user might not actually
> >understand or care about. I don't have a better idea right off the
> >top of my head, though.
>
> Maybe VOLATILE for UNSYNCED? Not sure about UNLOGGED.

+1 for describing the end-user-visible behavior.

Cheers,
David.
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