On 2014-07-16 20:25:42 +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I quickly looked at this patch and I think there's major missing pieces
> around buffer management and wal logging.
>
> a) Currently buffers that are in memory marked as
> permanent/non-permanent aren't forced out to disk/pruned from cache,
> not even when they're dirty.
> b) When converting from a unlogged to a logged table the relation needs
> to be fsynced.
> c) Currently a unlogged table changed into a logged one will be
> corrupted on a standby because its contents won't ever be WAL logged.
Forget that, didn't notice that you're setting tab->rewrite = true.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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