Re: 8.4 open item: copy performance regression?

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
>> The more useful case for data load is "create or truncate it in the
>> same transaction", of course.

> Unfortunately, WAL bypass also requires not being in archive mode with
> no way to turn that off w/o a server restart, aiui.

Well, if you're trying to archive then you certainly wouldn't want WAL
off, so I'm failing to see where this thread is going ...
        regards, tom lane