Re: COPY commands could use an enhancement.

From: Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: COPY commands could use an enhancement.
Date: 2001-05-01 01:31:48
Message-ID: 3.0.5.32.20010501113148.02dc4630@mail.rhyme.com.au
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At 11:36 30/04/01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>COPY is designed as a simple, fast, reliable,
>low-overhead data transfer mechanism for backup and restore. The more
>warts we add to it, the less well it will serve that purpose.
>

Do you have a alternate suggestion as to how to solve the problems it has
backing up the regression DB?

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