| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> |
| Subject: | Re: Remove xmin and cmin from frozen tuples |
| Date: | 2005-09-02 19:39:09 |
| Message-ID: | 200509021939.j82Jd9g29228@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Of course, it's fair to ask whether such a program would be any faster
> than binary-mode COPY by the time you got done ... or enough faster to
> justify your effort, anyway.
>
> THe only fundamental disadvantage that COPY labors under is having to
> write WAL records. It might be interesting to do something similar to
> the recent hacks for CREATE TABLE AS, so that a COPY into a table just
> created in the current transaction would skip writing WAL and instead
> fsync the table at the end.
Added to TODO:
o Allow COPY into an empty table to skip WAL logging
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