Re: 8.4 open item: copy performance regression? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>> Tom Lane wrote:
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>>> I thought he was asking for a solution to the problem of WALInsertLock
>>> contention.  In any case, we have "WAL bypass on a table by table basis"
>>> now, don't we?
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>> If we do I'm ignorant of it ;-) How do we say "Never WAL this table"?
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> Make it a temporary table.
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That doesn't help if you need the data visible in multiple sessions. But 
we're digressing from the original topic. Sorry.

cheers

andrew