Re: pg_dump and insert multi-rows option

Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
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>> On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 01:22:01PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
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>>> ... 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.
>>>       
>
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>> 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.
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>   

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