> 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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