diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 1e5fa18c..95f6b4c7 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -350,17 +350,15 @@ must also set a distribution key with the distkey option.
When performing an overwrite of existing data, this setting can be used to stage the new data in a temporary -table, such that we make sure the COPY finishes successfully before making any changes to the existing table. -This means that we minimize the amount of time that the target table will be unavailable and restore the old -data should the COPY fail.
++ Setting this deprecated option to false will cause an overwrite operation's destination table to be dropped immediately at the beginning of the write, making the overwrite operation non-atomic and reducing the availability of the destination table. This may reduce the temporary disk space requirements for overwrites. +
-You may wish to disable this by setting the parameter to false if you can't spare the disk space in your -Redshift cluster and/or don't have requirements to keep the table availability high.
+Since setting usestagingtable=false operation risks data loss / unavailability, we have chosen to deprecate it in favor of requiring users to manually drop the destination table themselves.