Re: [Retrieved]RE: backup and recovery

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Added to TODO:
> >     * Have pg_dump use multi-statement transactions for INSERT dumps
>
> > For simple performance reasons, it would be good.  I am not sure about
> > allowing errors to continue loading.   Anyone else?
>
> Of course, anyone who actually cares about reload speed shouldn't be
> using INSERT-style dumps anyway ... I'm not sure why we should expend
> effort on that rather than just telling people to use the COPY mode.

My bigger issue is that COPY will fail on a single row failure, and
nothing will be in the table, while INSERT will not.

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