Efficiency of CREATE TABLE AS - Mailing list pgsql-novice

Hi,

If I do the following

CREATE TABLE foo AS SELECT * FROM bar

and a sequential scan is chosen as the plan (in particular, no ordering required), will the rows be written directly
intothe new table?  I am concerned about the case where there may be many gigabytes of data being copied between these
twotables.  And my precise concern is that the data may be stored temporarily before being placed in the new table,
slowingthings down. 

Thanks,
Brian