Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> (Note that COPY per se will not trigger this behavior anyway, since it
>>> will act in a limited number of buffers because of the recent buffer
>>> access strategy patch.)
>
>> Actually we dropped it from COPY, because it didn't seem to improve
>> performance in the tests we ran.
>
> Who's "we"? AFAICS, CVS HEAD will treat a large copy the same as any
> other large heapscan.
Umm, I'm talking about populating a table with COPY *FROM*. That's not a
heap scan at all.
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Heikki Linnakangas
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