Re: hundreds of millions row dBs

From: "Guy Rouillier" <guyr(at)masergy(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: hundreds of millions row dBs
Date: 2005-01-04 04:58:30
Message-ID: CC1CF380F4D70844B01D45982E671B2348E4FA@mtxexch01.add0.masergy.com
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Greer, Doug wrote:
> Hello all,
> I am interested in using Postgresql for a dB of hundreds of
> millions of rows in several tables. The COPY command seems to be way
> too slow. Is there any bulk import program similar to Oracle's SQL
> loader for Postgresql? Sincerely,
> Doug Greer

We're getting about 64 million rows inserted in about 1.5 hrs into a
table with a multiple-column primary key - that's the only index.
That's seems pretty good to me - SQL Loader takes about 4 hrs to do the
same job.

--
Guy Rouillier

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