Re: A little COPY speedup

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Patches" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: A little COPY speedup
Date: 2007-03-02 18:54:18
Message-ID: 15472.1172861658@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> Of what use is the above comment? You have to parse the input into
>> fields somehow.

> Well those two requirements aren't inconsistent if you're using fixed-width
> input text files. Not that I'm enamoured of such file formats, just saying.

[ shrug... ] And of course, shoving a large quantity of padding spaces
through the software has zero cost.

regards, tom lane

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