Re: Survey on backing up unlogged tables: help us with PostgreSQL development!

> If you do wish to have the data tossed out for no good reason every so
> often, then there ought to be a separate attribute to control that.  I'm
> really having trouble seeing how such behavior would be desirable enough
> to ever have the server do it for you, on its terms rather than yours.

I don't quite follow you.  The purpose of unlogged tables is for data
which is disposable in the event of downtime; the classic example is the
a user_session_status table.  In the event of a restart, all user
sessions are going to be invalid anyway.

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