Re: pg_dump and insert multi-rows option

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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> >
> >> On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 01:22:01PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >>
> >>> ... The only reason I can see to
> >>> use these options today is if you want to try to port the dump to
> >>> some other database ... and in that case you probably shouldn't
> >>> assume multi-insert will work anyway.
> >>>
> >
> >
> >> I'm pretty sure it does in the current versions of most other DBMSs.
> >>
> >
> > Up to a point, perhaps. Do you want to make assumptions about what
> > the maximum acceptable command length will be for other DBMSes?
> > It'd be hard enough being sure what to use for Postgres.
> >
> >
> >
>
> If we were going to allow it then I think we'd also need a param to
> specify either a max number of rows or a max statement size. IIRC, in
> MySQL at least, one of these is tunable for input.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
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