Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:57 PM, marcin mank <marcin.mank@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can (should ?) unlogged tables' contents survive graceful (non-crash) shutdown?
> I don't think so. To make that work, you'd need to keep track of
> every backing file that might contain pages not fsync()'d to disk, and
> at shutdown time you'd need to fsync() them all before shutting down.
This is presuming that we want to guarantee the same level of safety for
unlogged tables as for regular. Which, it seems to me, is exactly what
people *aren't* asking for. Why not just write the data and shut down?
If you're unlucky enough to have a system crash immediately after that,
well, you might have corrupt data in the unlogged tables ... but that
doesn't seem real probable.
regards, tom lane