If you're using a dedicated database (and if your queries are non-trivial
you probably want to move off the shared ones) then you can just use heroku
pg:ingress + psql.

-p

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Zach Bailey <znbai...@gmail.com> wrote:

>  I'm wondering if anyone has had experience importing a large amount of
> data into their heroku database and how they went about doing it. I'm
> staring down about 3-4M rows of (static) data that I'd like to get into our
> DB on Heroku.
>
>
> If I had my own database locally I would probably use the COPY command as
> it is blazing fast. Inserting a row at a time from ruby code or going
> through an exposed API is looking like it will take multiple days to do
> (without spending extra money to crank up more dynos and buy a larger DB
> option)
>
>
> Another option I thought of would be to figure out a way to load the data
> in a local db then dump only that table and restore it into the heroku db as
> a partial backup, but I didn't see any facility for that.
>
>
> Has anyone done anything like this or think of a good way for doing it?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Zach
>
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