Re: Inserting heap tuples in bulk in COPY

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> Why do you need new WAL replay routines?  Can't you just use the existing
>> XLOG_HEAP_NEWPAGE support?
>>
>> By any large, I think we should be avoiding special-purpose WAL entries
>> as much as possible.
>
> I tried that, but most of the reduction in WAL-size melts away with that.
> And if the page you're copying to is not empty, logging the whole page is
> even more expensive. You'd need to fall back to retail inserts in that case
> which complicates the logic.

Where does it go?  I understand why it'd be a problem for partially
filled pages, but it seems like it ought to be efficient for pages
that are initially empty.

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