Re: asynchronous commit

Robert DiFalco <robert(dot)difalco(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Andreas, I think UNLOGGED would be something different but I'm not totally
> clear. However, it seems to me that an unlogged table would simply disappear
> (be truncated) after a server crash. That means instead of maybe loosing a
> record or two that I could loose a ton or records. But maybe my understanding
> is off.

That's correct.

Maybe you can solve the performance issue with unlogged tables, but yes,
you have to save the records into a regular table. Maybe via Cron or so.
(rough, with move as (delete from unlogged returning *) insert into
regular_table select * from move, or something similar.)

Sorry for the delay.

Andreas
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