Stefan Kaltenbrunner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> A more interesting question is what sort of hardware you need for that
>> actually to be a win, though.  Loading a few tables in parallel sounds
>> like an ideal recipe for oversaturating your disk bandwidth...

> you don't actually need that much of disk bandwidth both COPY and CREATE
> INDEX are CPU bottlenecked on modern boxes and reasonable disk
> subsystems - spreading their work over multiple cores/processes can give
> big benefits.

Hmm ... I wonder if that's true for COPY BINARY ...

                        regards, tom lane

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