X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDF10538AF for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 13:12:28 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 58328-05 for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 16:12:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88EC4538AE for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 13:12:22 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j43GCL3H021155; Tue, 3 May 2005 12:12:22 -0400 (EDT) To: Steven Rosenstein Cc: pgsql-perform Subject: Re: In-reply-to: References: Comments: In-reply-to Steven Rosenstein message dated "Tue, 03 May 2005 11:55:15 -0400" Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 12:12:21 -0400 Message-ID: <21154.1115136741@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.006 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200505/18 X-Sequence-Number: 12182 Steven Rosenstein writes: > My question is, are there any advantages, drawbacks, or outright > restrictions to using multiple simultaneous COPY commands to load data into > the same table? It will work; not sure about whether there is any performance benefit. I vaguely recall someone having posted about doing this, so you might check the archives. regards, tom lane