Re: GSoC proposal - "make an unlogged table logged"

<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br />On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Andres Freund <<a
href="mailto:andres@2ndquadrant.com">andres@2ndquadrant.com</a>>wrote:<br />><br />> On 2014-03-04 12:54:02
-0500,Robert Haas wrote:<br /> > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Andres Freund <<a
href="mailto:andres@2ndquadrant.com">andres@2ndquadrant.com</a>>wrote:<br />> > > On 2014-03-04 09:47:08
-0500,Robert Haas wrote:<br />> > > Can't that be solved by just creating the permanent relation in a new<br
/>> > > relfilenode? That's equivalent to a rewrite, yes, but we need to do that<br />> > > for
anythingbut wal_level=minimal anyway.<br />> ><br />> > Yes, that would work.  I've tended to view
optimizingaway the<br /> > > relfilenode copy as an indispensable part of this work, but that might<br />>
>be wrongheaded.  It would certainly be a lot easier to make this<br />> > happen if we didn't insist on
that.<br/>><br /> > I think it'd already much better than today's situation, and it's a<br />> required
codepathfor wal_level > logical anyway. So even if somebody<br />> wants to make this work without the full copy
forminimal, it'd still be<br /> > a required codepath. So I am perfectly ok with a patch just adding that.<br
/>><br/><br /></div><div class="gmail_extra">Then is this a good idea for a GSoC project ?<br /></div><div
class="gmail_extra"><br/>I don't know very well this internals, but I am willing to learn and I think the GSoC is a
goodopportunity.<br /><br /></div><div class="gmail_extra">Any of you are willing to mentoring this project?<br
/></div><divclass="gmail_extra"><br /></div><div class="gmail_extra">Regards,<br /><br /></div><div
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