Re: no XLOG during COPY?

Russell Smith wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>   
>> [snip]
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>>>  
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>> Er, who doesn't know what for certain, exactly? pg_restore will
>> certainly know that it has created the table in another session and
>> can thus safely truncate the table in the same transaction as the data
>> load.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> andrew
>>
>>     
> I'm confused about why table definition and data can't be loaded in the
> same backend and transaction.  Can somebody explain that?
>   

That would delay other things that depend on the table definition (e.g. 
function definitions). If we don't need to make this link (and we don't) 
then I can't see why we should shackle ourselves with it.

cheers

andrew