Re: COPY with no WAL, in certain circumstances

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: COPY with no WAL, in certain circumstances
Date: 2007-01-06 21:40:16
Message-ID: 200701062140.l06LeGV29828@momjian.us
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> > > Or in other words, does this patch mean that all COPY execution that is
> > > within a transaction will ignore WAL?
> >
> > Yes, because it is possible to do in all cases.
>
> Very happy to add documentation where Tom suggested.
>
> Reason for no documentation was that CREATE INDEX and CREATE TABLE AS
> SELECT already use this optimisation, but to my knowledge neither was/is
> documented on those command pages.

I wasn't aware those used the optimization. Seems they all should be
documented somewhere.

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