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Re: NOLOGGING option, or ?

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@surnet.cl>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-06-01T13:58:53Z
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Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> Sorry to followup to my own message, but it occurs to me that COPY could be
> made to automatically do this for the case of an empty destination table too.

Not unless you are proposing to change COPY to acquire a lock strong
enough to lock out other writers to the table for the duration ...

			regards, tom lane