On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Simon Riggs wrote:
In the case of a bulk upload to an empty table (or partition?) could you
not optimise the WAL away? That is, shouldn't the WAL basically be a
simple transformation of the on-disk blocks? You'd have to explicitly
sync the file(s) for the table/indexes of course, and you'd need some
work-around for WAL shipping, but it might be worth it for you chaps
with large imports.
Only by locking the table, which serializes access, which then slows you
down or at least restricts other options. Plus if you use pg_loader then
you'll find only the first few rows optimized and all the rest not.
Why would you need to lock the table?
Matthew
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