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Re: COPY commands could use an enhancement.

Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>

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From: Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-05-01T01:31:48Z
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At 11:36 30/04/01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>COPY is designed as a simple, fast, reliable,
>low-overhead data transfer mechanism for backup and restore.  The more
>warts we add to it, the less well it will serve that purpose.
>

Do you have a alternate suggestion as to how to solve the problems it has
backing up the regression DB?


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