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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Bulkloading using COPY - ignore duplicates?
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In response to Re: Bulkloading using COPY - ignore duplicates?  (Lee Kindness <lkindness@csl.co.uk>)
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Lee Kindness <lkindness@csl.co.uk> writes:
> In an ideal world 'COPY FROM' would only be used with data output by
> 'COPY TO' and it would be nice and sanitised. However in some fields
> this often is not a possibility due to performance constraints!

Of course, the more bells and whistles we add to COPY, the slower it
will get, which rather defeats the purpose no?
        regards, tom lane

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