On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 17:53 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Well, truncating tables that were empty on the load would certainly be > a easy to do --- not sure if that helps us, though.
This goes back to the single-loader-into-an-empty-table case, which I'd like to get away from. I think we already have some reasonable proposals on the table for optimizing that case. Ultimately, that pushes us toward partitioning with the same granularity as the data load. We can try to open that discussion up, but I think it's a bad idea to tie the data load granularity to the partitioning granularity, unless we have a way to coalesce them later without rewriting. It's too bad filesystems don't allow us to just reallocate some blocks from one file to another. [ OK, I guess I just opened this discussion myself ;) ] Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers