I started poking around in the ejabberd source code to see what I could learn. I couldn’t find much in the way of high level documentation that talks about how the various bits of ejabberd talk to each other, so...

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Consider this a work-in-progress; I will update this post if I find a ‘better’ way to do fast bulk loading

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