Re: How to use postgres 7.0.3 with -F?

In <12492.982346115@sss.pgh.pa.us> tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us (Tom Lane) writes:

>elwood@agouros.de (Konstantinos Agouros) writes:
>> someone gave me the tip to use the -F-flag to improve performance. Since
>> I can't run the postmaster with -F but just postgres how do I do it, if I
>> want to import a big amount of data?

>In 7.0.* (but not prior versions) it is safe to run individual backends
>with -F; other backends will still fsync their changes.  So, you can
>start a backend that's going to do an import with

>    export PGOPTIONS="-F"
>    psql mydb
>    ....

>(adjust 'export' command syntax depending on your preferred shell.)
>libpq passes the value of the environment variable PGOPTIONS over to the
>backend, and away you go.  -dN (debug level) is another backend command-
>line switch commonly set this way.
Ahhhh Ohhhh thanks for the help I was confused. Does this also work that way, if
I use it from DBI::Pg from perl? Like setting $ENV{'PGOPTIONS'}

Konstantin

>            regards, tom lane

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