I am trying to use the geometry data types introduced in version 4.1-alpha and the spatial indexing seems to work well. But I have a large volume of data to load, and from the documentation all I can see is that I have to load using a set of INSERT (or UPDATE) commands, which are rather verbose, and which produce a lot of messages each time a row is inserted:
INSERT INTO tm VALUES ( 0.01082, 0.08536, 0.46,16.84,16.129,15.856,polygonfromtext('polygon((0.00 999 0.08452, 0.01165 0.08452, 0.01165 0.08619, 0.00999 0.08619, 0.00999 0.08452))')); I have made the inserts load many rows at a time, which helps a little, but it is still slow. Does anyone know if there is a bulk load format, suitable for use with LOAD DATA INFILE... -- Clive Page, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester, UK -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]