Re: Optimizing huge inserts/copy's

I am experimenting with this too. If I have any
indexes at all, the copy's get VERY SLOW as the table
gets big. Delete ALL your indexes, do your copy's,
and then create your indexes again.

Good luck.
--- Jie Liang <jliang(at)ipinc(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi, there,
>
> I tried different ways, include vaccum table ,
> ensure index works, it
> still is as slow as ~100rows per minute.
>
>
> Stephan Szabo wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Jie Liang wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, there,
> > >
> > > 1. use copy ... from '.....';
> > > 2. write a PL/pgSQL function and pass multiple
> records as an array.
> > >
> > > However, if your table have a foreign key
> constraint, it cannot be speed
> > > up,
> > >
> > > I have same question as you, my table invloving
> 9-13 million rows, I
> > > don't
> > > know how can I add a foreign key them also?
> >
> > I haven't tried it on really large tables, but
> does it turn out faster to
> > use ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT to add the foreign
> key constraint after the
> > data is loaded and the indexes are created?
>
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