Re: unlogged tables

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "'Richard Huxton'" <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, "Anibal David Acosta" <aa(at)devshock(dot)com>, "'Sergey Konoplev'" <gray(dot)ru(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "'Stephen Frost'" <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Subject: Re: unlogged tables
Date: 2011-11-14 17:50:25
Message-ID: 4EC100810200002500042E7C@gw.wicourts.gov
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"Anibal David Acosta" <aa(at)devshock(dot)com> wrote:

> I am doing asynchronous commit but sometimes I think that there
> are so many "things" in an insert/update transaction, for a table
> that has not too much important information.
>
> My table is a statistics counters table, so I can live with a
> partial data loss, but not with a full data loss because many
> counters are weekly and monthly.
>
> Unlogged table can increase speed, this table has about 1.6
> millions of update per hour, but unlogged with a chance of loss
> all information on a crash are not a good idea for this.

pg_dump -t 'tablename' from a cron job? (Make sure to rotate dump
file names, maybe with day of week or some such.)

-Kevin

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