Re: GSoC proposal - "make an unlogged table logged"

From: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Fabrízio Mello <fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: GSoC proposal - "make an unlogged table logged"
Date: 2014-03-03 17:40:16
Message-ID: 5314BE80.3000209@2ndQuadrant.com
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On 03/03/2014 05:22 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
...
>> ISTR the discussion going something along the lines of "we'd have to WAL
>> log the entire table to do that, and if we have to do that, what's the
>> point?".
> IIRC, the reason you'd have to do that is to make the table contents
> appear on slave servers. If you don't consider replication then it might
> seem easier.
So switch on logging and then perform CLUSTER/VACUUM FULL ?

Should this work, or is something extra needed ?

Cheers

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Hannu Krosing
PostgreSQL Consultant
Performance, Scalability and High Availability
2ndQuadrant Nordic OÜ

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