On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 21:04, Marty Scholes wrote: > I can see that and considered it. > > The seed state would need to be saved, or any particular command that is > not reproducible would need to be exempted from this sort of logging. > > Again, this would apply only to situations where a small SQL command > created huge changes.
I would say a majority of SQL queries in most designed systems (timestamp). Not to mention the fact the statement itself may use very expensive functions -- perhaps even user functions that don't repeatably do the same thing or depend on data from other tables. Consider a successful write to table X for transaction 2, but an unsuccessful write to table Y for transaction 1. Transaction 1 calls a function that uses information from table X -- but it'll get different information this time around. Anyway, it really doesn't matter. You're trying to save a large amount of time that simply isn't spent in this area in PostgreSQL. fsync() happens once with commit -- and on a busy system, a single fsync call may be sufficient for a number of parallel backends. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])