On K, 2005-06-01 at 18:05 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> What we could do is to do no-WAL automatically for empty tables (like
> when a database is first loaded),
You forget that some databases use WAL for PITR / replication and doing
it automatically there would surely mess up their replica.
How is index creation handeled if it is not logged in WAL ? - is it not automatically WAL'ed ? - Must one recreate
indexesafter PITR or failover ?
> and use the flag for cases where the
> tables is not zero pages. The fact is that database loads are a prefect
> case for this optimization and old dumps are not going to have that flag
> anyway, and automatic is better if we can do it.
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Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>