Re: COPY enhancements - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Smith
Subject Re: COPY enhancements
Date
Msg-id alpine.GSO.2.01.0910081304160.25300@westnet.com
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In response to Re: COPY enhancements  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Tom Lane wrote:

> It may be that we should just say "if you want to import dirty data, 
> it's gonna cost ya" and not worry about the speed penalty of 
> subtransaction-per-row.

This goes along with the response I gave on objections to adding other 
bits of overhead into COPY.  If the performance only suffers when you're 
targeting unclean data, the users this feature targets will glady accept 
that trade-off.  You're still way ahead of the other options here at the 
finish line.

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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD


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