From: John Coers <coers@intrinsity.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Copy
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 17:05:33 -0500
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> John Coers <coers@intrinsity.com> writes:
> > Does a COPY FROM block? In case I am using the wrong terminology,
> > what I need to know is if I have multiple clients performing COPY FROM...PQputline()
> > using asynchronous connections, will I lose data?
>
> No.
>
> > Will the server simply execute them serially?
>
> They'll be executed in parallel, just the same as if each client had
> done a bunch of INSERTs wrapped in a BEGIN/END block. You'd only see
> problems if clients inserted conflicting data (eg, identical keys in
> a column with a UNIQUE index). You may care to read the documentation
> about multi-version concurrency control and locking.
Do I need to do a PQconnectStart(),PQconnectPoll connection to make the server process
the COPY's in parallel, or does that just affect the client-side thread? How about a
PQconnectdb() and then PQsetnonblocking()?
Can I just do a PQconnectdb()?
I am unclear on how these different connection types affect the client threads vs. the server threads.
--
John Coers Intrinsity, Inc.
coers@intrinsity.com Austin, Texas
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