On 12 November 2012 16:22, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> But I guess that raises the question - should COPY (FREEZE) silently
> ignore the option for not-new relfilenodes, or should it error out?
> Simon proposed the former, but I'm wondering if the latter would be
> better.

It's got some complex pre-conditions, so having scripts fail because
you mis-specified FREEZE would be annoying.

The option indicates "I accept the potential MVCC violation", not "it
will always freeze".

If there is a better name...

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