Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Not unless you are proposing to change COPY to acquire a lock strong >> enough to lock out other writers to the table for the duration ...
> Well, if the table is initally empty, what harm is there in locking the > table? You cannot *know* whether it is empty unless you lock the table before you look. So your argument is circular. I think this only makes sense as an explicit option to COPY, one of the effects of which would be to take a stronger lock than COPY normally does. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly