Re: [INTERFACES] perl interface

From: Cyril Ferrand <Cyril(dot)Ferrand(at)sophia(dot)inria(dot)fr>
To: David Hartwig <daveh(at)insightdist(dot)com>
Cc: Cyril Ferrand <Cyril(dot)Ferrand(at)sophia(dot)inria(dot)fr>, pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, Cyril(dot)Ferrand(at)sophia(dot)inria(dot)fr
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] perl interface
Date: 1998-07-24 14:27:36
Message-ID: 199807241427.QAA20633@celia.inria.fr
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> Cyril Ferrand wrote:
>
> > Hello
> > Is there someone who use perl interface to postgres to put a lot of data into
> > a base.
> > When my table are 40 meg my perl stop...
> >
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> I'll take a good guess based on what little information you have provided. I will
> assume the you ran a query which requested a large chunk of that 40 meg table. The perl
> interface uses libpq. And libpq slurps the entire query result into memory before
> passing control back to the users code. This is a weakness of this library. May I
> suggest that you declare a cursor and request the data in chunks. (fetch 100 rows at a
> time) If you use a cursor and fetch only one row at a time you may be disappointed in
> the performance.
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>
> Hello
in fact i dont make query with my perl script ... i make insert and sometimes
(when table are quite big) my perl script stop but no die....
After i do : perl .... to and my script work until it stop again.
I dont understant why ???

Cyril

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