On Tuesday 29 September 2009, Sam Mason <sam@samason.me.uk> wrote:
> ?? I'm not sure what you're implying about the semantics here, but it
> doesn't seem right. COPY doesn't somehow break out of ACID semantics,
> it's only an *optimization* that allows you to get large quantities of
> data into the database faster. The main reason it's faster is because
> parsing CSV data is easier than parsing SQL.
>
> At least I think that's the only difference; anybody know better?
I think a big reason is also that the client can stream the data without
waiting for a network round trip ack on every statement.
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