Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> COPY FROM can read in sufficient rows until it has a whole block worth
> of data, then get a new block and write it all with one pair of
> BufferLock calls.
> Comments?
I don't see any way to do this without horrible modularity violations.
The COPY code has no business going anywhere near individual buffers;
for that matter, it doesn't even really know what "a block worth" of
data is, since the tuples it's dealing with aren't toasted yet.
regards, tom lane