2013/1/16 Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net>: > * Bruce Momjian (br...@momjian.us) wrote: >> I am not sure how a COPY could be easily parallelized, but I supposed it >> could be done as part of the 1GB segment feature. People have >> complained that COPY is CPU-bound, so it might be very interesting to >> see if we could offload some of that parsing overhead to a child. > > COPY can certainly be CPU bound but before we can parallelize that > usefully we need to solve the problem around extent locking when trying > to do multiple COPY's to the same table.
Probably update any related indexes and constraint checking should be paralellized. Regards Pavel > > Thanks, > > Stephen -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
