Re: Equivalents in PostgreSQL of MySQL's "ENGINE=MEMORY" "MAX_ROWS=1000" - Mailing list pgsql-performance

On Apr 3, 2007, at 15:39 , C. Bergström wrote:

> A.M. wrote:
>> Indeed... I looked through the official TODO list and was unable
>> to find an entry for global temporary tables- such a thing would
>> be ideal for any transient data such as web sessions or
>> materialized views. Is there any reason why global temp tables
>> shouldn't be implemented? (And, no, I'm not simply referring to
>> "in-memory" tables- they can simply be handled with a ram disk.)
> Not exactly what you're looking for and a simple API, but the
> performance is very nice and has a lot of potential.
>
> http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgmemcache/

I would like to use transactional semantics over tables that can
disappear whenever the server fails. memcached does not offer that.

Cheers,
M