Simon,
> I doubt that anyone wants the current behaviour.
>
> It's a very common thing for minor changes during beta to improve software.
> I think we should be listening to users so that we round off the
> features being delivered with a few tweaks.
Actually, I find the Unlogged tables very useful as they are. I have at
least 20 clients who store their "session" tables in PostgreSQL, as well
as quite a few clients who use PostgreSQL as a backing store for a queue
with ephemeral data. And the Unlogged tables are terrrific for doing ELT.
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Josh Berkus
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