Re: unlogged tables - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Kevin Grittner
Subject Re: unlogged tables
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Msg-id 4EC100810200002500042E7C@gw.wicourts.gov
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In response to Re: unlogged tables  ("Anibal David Acosta" <aa@devshock.com>)
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"Anibal David Acosta" <aa@devshock.com> wrote:

> I am doing asynchronous commit but sometimes I think that there
> are so  many "things" in an insert/update transaction, for a table
> that has not too much important information.
>
> My table is a statistics counters table, so I can live with a
> partial data loss, but not with a full data loss because many
> counters are weekly and monthly.
>
> Unlogged table can increase speed, this table has about 1.6
> millions of update per hour, but unlogged with a chance of loss
> all information on a crash are not a good idea for this.

pg_dump -t 'tablename' from a cron job?  (Make sure to rotate dump
file names, maybe with day of week or some such.)

-Kevin

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