Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Robert Haas (robertmhaas@gmail.com) wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Fabr�zio de Royes Mello
>> <fabriziomello@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is the TODO item "make an unlogged table logged" [1] a good GSoC project?
>> I'm pretty sure we found some problems in that design that we couldn't
>> figure out how to solve. I don't have a pointer to the relevant
>> -hackers discussion off-hand, but I think there was one.
> 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.
regards, tom lane