Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> Basically, for every unlogged table, you get an empty _init fork, and
> for every index of an unlogged table, you get an _init fork
> initialized to an empty index. The _init forks are copied over the
> main forks by the startup process before entering normal running.
Let's call that metadata.
> Well, we could certainly Decree From On High that the _init forks are
> all going to be stored under $PGDATA rather than in the tablespace
> directories. That would make things simple. Of course, it also means
And now you need to associate a non volatile tablespace where to store
the metadata of your volatile tablespace where you want to store
unlogged data. And we already have a default tablespace, of course.
Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
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