Re: unlogged tables

From: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(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 16:00:46
Message-ID: AANLkTinq_pj3aL04oLTe-nx-jEw0mUqkeLOtCZv7creL@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>> fsync()ing the file at shutdown doesn't seem too bad to me from
>> performance point of view, we tolerate that for all other tables. And
>> you can always truncate the table yourself before shutdown.
>
> The objection to that was not about performance.  It was about how
> to find out what needs to be fsync'd.
>

Just a crazy brainstorming thought, but....

If this is a clean shutdown then all the non-unlogged tables have been
checkpointed so they should have no dirty pages in them anyways. So we
could just fsync everything.

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greg

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