Re: INSERTing lots of data

On 06/01/2010 05:45 AM, Greg Smith wrote:
> Two thoughts. First, build a test performance case assuming it will fail
> to scale upwards, looking for problems. If you get lucky, great, but
> don't assume this will work--it's proven more difficult than is obvious
> in the past for others.
>
> Second, if you do end up being throttled by the GIL, you can probably
> build a solution for Python 2.6/3.0 using the multiprocessing module for
> your use case: http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html

Thanks, Greg - multiprocessing looks very usable for my application.
Much more than using fork() and pipes myself...

Joachim