| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Michael L(dot) Hostbaek" <mich(at)freebsdcluster(dot)org> |
| Cc: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: postgresql multiple insert slow |
| Date: | 2004-02-21 16:03:45 |
| Message-ID: | 11942.1077379425@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Michael L. Hostbaek" <mich(at)freebsdcluster(dot)org> writes:
> I runs fine - and I get no errors - but it takes almost 25 minutes to
> complete.. I tried running the script while just grabbing the rows from
> the oracle database and writing to a text file - and then it only takes
> a couple of minutes .. So it must be the INSERT command that chokes - is
> there a better way to do it ?
You probably want to add BEGIN/COMMIT operations around the loop. See
the documentation's tips on bulk data loading:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/populate.html
regards, tom lane
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