Re: VLDB Features

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: VLDB Features
Date: 2007-12-15 06:12:58
Message-ID: 6430.1197699178@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> There's no way we can do a transactionless load, then? I'm thinking of the
> load-into-new-partition which is a single pass/fail operation. Would
> ignoring individual row errors in for this case still cause these kinds of
> problems?

Given that COPY fires triggers and runs CHECK constraints, there is no
part of the system that cannot be exercised during COPY. So I think
supposing that we can just deal with some simplified subset of reality
is mere folly.

regards, tom lane

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