Tom,
> 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.
Yes, I thought we discussed doing this for empty tables -- it would be, per
our tests, a +10% to +30% boost to COPY.
But there was some problem the patch?
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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
