Re: SELECT '(1, nan, 3)'::cube;

bricklen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Robert Brewer <fumanchu(at)aminus(dot)org>
> wrote:
> > I'm working on a hypercube implementation in Postgres using
> contrib/cube
> >
> > and need to insert 80,000 rows in one go from Python. Doing so with
> > INSERT, even multiple statements in one call, is pretty slow. I've
> been
> > investigating if using COPY is faster.
>
> When you say "multiple statements", do you mean
>
> INSERT INTO foo (coords) VALUES
> (cube(ARRAY[1, 'nan', 3]::float[])),
> (cube(ARRAY[2, 'nan', 4]::float[])),
> (cube(ARRAY[3, 'nan', 5]::float[])),
> (cube(ARRAY[4, 'nan', 6]::float[]));
>
> I was going to suggest trying that method, but if you already have
> then please ignore me!

Yes, I'm using the above now. Looking for something faster. I'll probably settle on using -Inf for the short term so I can use COPY.

Bob