Re: unlogged tables

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Rob Wultsch <wultsch@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Cédric Villemain
>> <cedric.villemain.debian@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2010/12/8 Kineticode Billing <david@kineticode.com>:
>>>> On Dec 8, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Chris Browne wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Other possibilities include TRANSIENT, EPHEMERAL, TRANSIENT, TENUOUS.
>>>>
>>>> EVANESCENT.
>>>
>>> UNSAFE ?
>>>
>> <troll>
>> MyISAM
>> </troll>
>
> Heh.  But that would be corrupt-on-crash, not truncate-on-crash, no?
>
> --
> Robert Haas
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> The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
>
<troll>
Yep. Truncate-on-shutdown MySQL options are the MEMORY and PBXT (using
the memory resident option).
</troll>

I like TRANSIENT but wonder if MEMORY might be more easily understood by users.
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Rob Wultsch
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