Re: unlogged tables

On 17.11.2010 17:11, Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>  writes:
>> fsync()ing the file at shutdown doesn't seem too bad to me from
>> performance point of view, we tolerate that for all other tables. And
>> you can always truncate the table yourself before shutdown.
>
> The objection to that was not about performance.  It was about how
> to find out what needs to be fsync'd.

I must be missing something: we handle that just fine with normal 
tables, why is it a problem for unlogged tables?

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