From: Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> > The argument here seems to stem from the idea that issueing a 'TRUNCATE' > inside the transaction before starting the 'COPY' command is 'too hard'.
> I could be wrong and perhaps opinions will change in the future, but it really > doesn't seem like the there's much support for adding a new WAL level just to > avoid doing the TRUNCATE. Appealing to what other database systems > support can be helpful in some cases but that's usually when we're looking at > a > new capability which multiple other systems have implemented. This isn't > actually a new capability at all- the WAL level that you're looking for > already > exists and already gives the optimization you're looking for, as long as you > issue > a TRUNCATE at the start of the transaction. No, we can't ask using TRUNCATE because the user wants to add data to a table. Regards Takayuki Tsunakawa