Re: no XLOG during COPY? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: no XLOG during COPY?
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Msg-id 1221476380.3913.1277.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant
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In response to Re: no XLOG during COPY?  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 15:25 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> Great, thanks (and also to Guillaume).
> 
> It looks to me like the simple way around this issue would be to provide 
> an option to have pg_restore emit:
>     begin; truncate foo; copy foo ... commit;
> 
> The truncate will be trivial as there won't be any data or indexes at 
> that stage anyway.

Not sure which stage you're talking about. If this is a parallel restore
and you are running a create in one session and a load in another, then
ISTM you have no way of knowing that for certain.

-- Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.comPostgreSQL Training, Services and Support



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