| From: | Marek Lewczuk <newsy(at)lewczuk(dot)com> | 
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| To: | Goutam Paruchuri <gparuchuri(at)oneil(dot)com> | 
| Cc: | Lista dyskusyjna pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Lista dyskusyjna pgsql-sql <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> | 
| Subject: | Re: how to use COPY within plperl | 
| Date: | 2004-11-08 19:14:22 | 
| Message-ID: | 418FC58E.1000404@lewczuk.com | 
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Goutam Paruchuri wrote:
> Why can you not use simple insert statements (sql insert).
> Copy is meant to transfer large amount of data from text files to
> databases and vice versa.
"Insert" is much slower if there are many (hundreds, thousands) data to 
be inserted - and in my case there will be thousands of inserts made by 
plperl. I can make a file with the data (and load using COPY), but it 
would be better to use copy from stdin.
Thanks
ML
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