Re: 1 milion data insertion

On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 03:34:12PM -0300, Elielson Fontanezi wrote:
> Hi fellows!
>
> I have tried to insert 1.000.000 of record to the following table;
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> zakal=# \d teste;
> codigo | bigint | not null
> nome | character varying(100) |
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> and I got these errors:
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> zakal$ psql -c "copy teste from 'teste.dat' using delimeters '|'"
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "delimeters"
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "delimeters"
> zakal$ psql -c "copy teste from 'teste.dat' using delimiters '|'"
> ERROR: COPY command, running in backend with effective uid 504, could not
> open
> file 'teste.dat' for reading. Errno = No such file or directory (2).
> ERROR: COPY command, running in backend with effective uid 504, could not
> open
> file 'teste.dat' for reading. Errno = No such file or directory (2).
> zakal$ pwd
> /home/zakal/tmp
> zakal$ psql -c "copy teste from '`pwd`/teste.dat' using delimiters '|'"
> DEBUG: copy: line 27536, XLogWrite: new log file created - consider
> increasing
> WAL_FILES
> DEBUG: copy: line 93146, XLogWrite: new log file created - consider
> increasing
> WAL_FILES
> DEBUG: recycled transaction log file 0000000000000000
>
>
> ERROR: copy: line 164723, Bad int8 external representation "16722"
> ERROR: copy: line 164723, Bad int8 external representation "16722"
> zakal$
> zakal$
> zakal$ DEBUG: recycled transaction log file 0000000000000001
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> the log has overflowed.
>
> Ok, this was a test. I'd like to know what would be happen.
> But, from you, great PostGres DBA's, what is the best way to
> insert a large number of data?
> Is there a way to turn off the log?
> Is there a way to commit each 100 records?
>
> regards,

in relativly small chuncks, do 100 10,000 record transactions and
you should be fine.

marc

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> Elielson Fontanezi
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