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

On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello@gmail.com> writes:
> > Do you think is difficult to implement "ALTER TABLE ... SET UNLOGGED" too?
> > Thinking in a scope of one GSoC, of course.
>
> I think it's basically the same thing.  You might hope to optimize it;
> but you have to create (rather than remove) an init fork, and there's
> no way to do that in exact sync with the commit.  So for safety I think
> you have to copy the data into a new relfilenode.
>

Regards,

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