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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: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, Hans-Jürgen Schönig <postgres@cybertec.at>, Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@surnet.cl>, Alon Goldshuv <agoldshuv@greenplum.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-06-01T14:01:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 16:34 +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> There are some other arguments in favour of a LOAD command.... Alon?
>> 
>> We already have LOAD, so you'll have to choose something else :)

> Its annoying, I grant you. :-)

> LOAD 'library' would still need to be the default.

> LOAD LIBRARY 'library' would be the new recommended usage.

> LOAD DATA... would be the new command... with most other options hanging
> off of that. There's no problem with that, since that is then the same
> as Oracle syntax for the load utility.

Uh, what's wrong with adding an option to COPY?  Not like it hasn't got
a ton of 'em already.  The Oracle-compatibility angle doesn't interest
me at all, mainly because I find it highly improbable that we'd be exactly
compatible anyway.

			regards, tom lane