Re: Hot disable WAL archiving

On Fri, 17 Jun 2016, 9:12 p.m. Igor Neyman, <ineyman(at)perceptron(dot)com> wrote:

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> To: Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
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> Hi Albe and thank you, first of all.
>
> Is there a way to disable Wal logging only for specific table, permanently?
>

Yes.

You can set it to NO LOGGING

Alter table table_name set unlogged;

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/sql-altertable.html

>
> Thank you again!
> Francesco
>
> ________________________________________
> Da: Albe Laurenz [laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at]
> Inviato: venerdì 17 giugno 2016 13.48
> A: Job; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Oggetto: RE: Hot disable WAL archiving
>
> Job wrote:
> > is there a way in Postgresql-9.5 to disable temporarily WAL archiving
> > to speed up pg_bulkload with restarting database engine?
>
>
> You can set 'archive_command=/bin/true' and reload, then no WAL archives
> will be written.
>
> Make sure to perform a base backup as soon as your bulk load is finished.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
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> Francesco,
>
> Check CREATE UNLOGGED TABLE... in the docs.
>
> Regards,
> Igor
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