| From: | Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Dave Huber <DHuber(at)letourneautechnologies(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: bulk inserts |
| Date: | 2009-09-29 14:35:59 |
| Message-ID: | 2f4958ff0909290735p640dd3e4r62987e786ea46070@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Dave Huber <
DHuber(at)letourneautechnologies(dot)com> wrote:
> All I have to say is wow! COPY works sooo much faster than the iterative
> method I was using. Even after having to read the entire binary file and
> reformat the data into the binary format that postgres needs it is an order
> of magnitude faster than using a prepared INSERT. At least that’s what my
> prelim testing is showing me. I will have to let it run for a while with a
> larger table to see how it performs in the longrun, but initially this is
> very positive.
>
you can also try wrapping whole bunch of inserts in a transaction block.
--
GJ
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