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		lucianbr on July 9, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Just Use Postgres for Everything > Use Postgres for caching instead of Redis with UNLOGGED tables This is not the same thing, is it? Redis is in-memory, while the Postgres tables will be on disk, even UNLOGGED.

donor20 on July 9, 2024 [–]

I thought unlogged was used so crash recovery would truncate / dump the table on a crash with 100% Dataloss but this let you put stuff on a tempfs / ramdisk?

zactato on July 9, 2024 | [–]

Isn't dataloss the main selling feature of redis /s

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