-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:17:24 -0500 (EST) Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Tom Lane wrote: > > > What are you imagining here ... a plain SQL script containing > > database-independent INSERT commands? That's going to suck compared > > to COPY no matter what. > > Think 100GB+ of data that's in a CSV or delimited file. Right now > the best import path is with COPY, but it won't execute very fast as > a single process. Splitting the file manually will take a long time > (time that could be spend loading instead) and substantially increase > disk usage, so the ideal approach would figure out how to load in > parallel across all available CPUs against that single file. You mean load from position? That would be very, very cool. Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL SPI Liaison | SPI Director | PostgreSQL political pundit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHxGzrATb/zqfZUUQRAujfAJ9xUIbj/DwN1QoyzR8a6O7B7FfK/wCffl3T Ruu+TzTVMoDkj0a5pHMePX0= =jlVQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
