Thanks for the response Simon. This is a perfect application of that
function, I have a distributed environmental modeling system that generates
Gigs and Gigs of time series data, most of which is "write-once
read-seldom", and thus not worth the overhead of perpetual storage in the
database, or stored in a remote modeling node (also not worth network or
storage traffic for synching nodes). Similarly, since the tables all come
from text files, there is virtually no penalty to accepting the risk of pg
failure during table loading.
Thanks again,
/r/b