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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