On 11/28/2017 10:50 AM, Ted Toth wrote:
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Rob Sargent <robjsarg...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Nov 28, 2017, at 10:17 AM, Ted Toth <txt...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm writing a migration utility to move data from non-rdbms data
source to a postgres db. Currently I'm generating SQL INSERT
statements involving 6 related tables for each 'thing'. With 100k or
more 'things' to migrate I'm generating a lot of statements and when I
try to import using psql postgres fails with 'out of memory' when
running on a Linux VM with 4G of memory. If I break into smaller
chunks say ~50K statements then thde import succeeds. I can change my
migration utility to generate multiple files each with a limited
number of INSERTs to get around this issue but maybe there's
another/better way?
Ted
what tools / languages ate you using?
I'm using python to read binary source files and create the text files
contains the SQL. Them I'm running psql -f <file containing SQL>.
If you're going out to the file system, I would use COPY of csv files
(if number of records per table is non-trivial). Any bulk loading
python available?
