Re: no XLOG during COPY?

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: no XLOG during COPY?
Date: 2008-09-15 10:59:40
Message-ID: 1221476380.3913.1277.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant
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On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 15:25 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> Great, thanks (and also to Guillaume).
>
> It looks to me like the simple way around this issue would be to provide
> an option to have pg_restore emit:
> begin; truncate foo; copy foo ... commit;
>
> The truncate will be trivial as there won't be any data or indexes at
> that stage anyway.

Not sure which stage you're talking about. If this is a parallel restore
and you are running a create in one session and a load in another, then
ISTM you have no way of knowing that for certain.

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
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