Josh Berkus wrote:
>> With the current patches, the data survives a restart just fine.
>
> Per -hackers, that's not guarenteed.
"Not guaranteed" is fine. What people are asking for is "often survives".
AFAIK we don't truncate the log file created by the log_filename GUC
on every unclean crash and every clean shutdown.
Should we? :-)
Why not?
For people who intend to use these tables to log application data,
they'd have the exact same reasons for not wanting them truncated
when they don't need to be.