Two of the hottest features in the database world are coming to the open source PostgreSQL 9.1 database.
The upcoming PostgreSQL 9.1 release including in-memory caching by way its unlogged tables feature. The unlogged table feature is not intended as a high-availability caching feature. Rather, the use case is for the caching to provide a solution for data that has a high volume of writes, but is not very valuable.
“The new database release will also include synchronous replication that can be controlled on a per transaction basis.
“What that means is the database administrator can decide on a per-transaction basis which ones need to be replicated and which ones don’t,” Josh Berkus, PostgreSQL core team member, told InternetNews.com. “The advantage of that is that there are a lot of mixed load applications which might have a small amount of essential data and a large amount of data that is not as important.”
