On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 13:17 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > > I'm also going to go through and change all instances of the word > > "unlogged" to "volatile", per previous discussion. If this seems like > > a bad idea to anyone, please object now rather than afterwards. > > Hm... I thought there had been discussion of a couple of different > flavors of table volatility. Is it really a good idea to commandeer > the word "volatile" for this particular one?
Note that DB2 uses the table modifier VOLATILE to indicate a table that has a widely fluctuating table size, for example a queue table. It's used as a declarative optimizer hint. So the term has many possible meanings. Prefer UNLOGGED or similar descriptive term. -- Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/books/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training and Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
