| From: | Wim <wdh(at)belbone(dot)be> |
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| To: | Colin Gillespie <C(dot)Gillespie(at)newcastle(dot)ac(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: INSERT or COPY: Which one? |
| Date: | 2004-02-18 07:58:28 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.53.0402180857160.5928@tyr.car.belbone.be |
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Hi Colin,
COPY is much faster that INSERT, although INSERT is safer. I think that
you can speed up the INSERT by disabling autocommit...
Cheers!
Wim
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Colin Gillespie wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I which to insert text (more than 1000 lines) into a single cell of my table, should I use COPY here or INSERT?
>
> My reading seems to suggest that you would use COPY for mulitple INSERTs, but when inserting alot of data into one cell, INSERT is fine. Is this correct?
>
> Thanks
>
> Colin
>
>
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