Re: NOLOGGING option, or ? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Neil Conway
Subject Re: NOLOGGING option, or ?
Date
Msg-id 1117602004.6678.70.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: NOLOGGING option, or ?  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@surnet.cl>)
Responses Re: NOLOGGING option, or ?
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On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 00:40 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> This doesn't work for COPY, but maybe for CREATE TABLE AS we could log
> the fact that the command was executed, so the replayer could execute
> the same command again.
> 
> Of course, this handwaving doesn't explain how the system in recovery
> mode would be able to execute a full query to reconstruct the table

There's also the typical problem with this kind of approach: how do you
handle non-deterministic queries? (e.g. "CREATE TABLE ... AS SELECT
random(), gettimeofday(), some_func(t1.x) FROM t1 LIMIT 5")

-Neil




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