Re: unlogged tables - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Steve Crawford
Subject Re: unlogged tables
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Msg-id 4CE446CE.90609@pinpointresearch.com
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In response to Re: unlogged tables  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 11/17/2010 11:44 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> ...because a backend crash has to be assumed to have corrupted 
> unlogged tables...
>    
So in a typical use-case, say storing session data on a web-site, one 
crashed backend could wreck sessions for some or all of the site? Is 
there a mechanism in the proposal that would allow a client to determine 
the state of a table (good, truncated, wrecked, etc.)?

Cheers,
Steve



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