Re: COPY with no WAL, in certain circumstances

Simon Riggs wrote:

> As discussed on -hackers, its possible to avoid writing any WAL at all
> for COPY in these circumstances:
>
Cool.

> The enclosed patch implements this, as discussed. There is no user
> interface to enable/disable, just as with CTAS and CREATE INDEX; no
> docs, just code comments.
>
IMHO, this deserves an GUC parameter (use_wal_in_copy?). Because a lot
of people use COPY because it's faster than INSERT but expects that it
will be in WAL. The default would be use_wal_in_copy = true.

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