xlogdump fixups and WAL log question.

Not sure who cares, so xzilla indicated I should drop a note here. I
just made the xlogdump stuff work for 8.1 (trivial) and fixed a few
other small issues that caused it to not work right both generally
and in our environment.

http://pgfoundry.org/tracker/index.php?
func=detail&aid=1000760&group_id=1000202&atid=772

We're using it to track down what's causing some wal log ruckus.
We're generating about a quarter terabyte of WAL logs a day (on bad
days) which is posing some PITR backup pains. That amount isn't a
severe challenge to backup, but our previous install was on Oracle
and it generated substantially less archive redo logs (10-20 gigs per
day).

Is it possible to create tables in fashion that will not write info
to the WAL log -- knowingly and intentionally making them
unrecoverable? This is very desirable for us. We snapshot tables
from a production environment. If the database goes down and we
recover, the old snapshots are out of date anyway and serve no useful
purpose. The periodic snapshot procedure would re-snap them in short
order anyway. I'd like to do:

INSERT INTO TABLE tblfoo_snap1 AS SELECT * from <table on remote
database> NO LOGGING;

(NO LOGGING being the only part we're currently missing) Is something
like this possible?

Cheers ;-)
Theo

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