Re: [Bizgres-general] WAL bypass for INSERT, UPDATE and - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: [Bizgres-general] WAL bypass for INSERT, UPDATE and
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Msg-id 20051227170729.GD72143@pervasive.com
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In response to Re: [Bizgres-general] WAL bypass for INSERT, UPDATE and  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
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On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 02:01:17AM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
> But I like the other user's suggestion too. If there's a standards blessed
> feature to have temporary tables that are visible in other sessions then
> perhaps that's what we've arrived at from another direction.

Having a temporary table that is visible to all sessions would have a
lot of use besides just ETL (the E stands for Extract, btw) operations.
One example is storing session data for a webapp; most people would
happily trade off losing that data on a database restart for the
increased performance of not logging.
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