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On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Bill Moran
<wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> wrote:
> There's a program called pgloader which supposedly is faster than copy.
> I've not used it so I can't say definitively how much faster it is.

I think you are thinking of pg_bulkloader...