On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Benjamin Johnson <benjamin.john...@getcarbonblack.com> wrote: > PG Gurus, > > I have a table like this: > > CREATE TABLE filemods ( > guid BIGINT NOT NULL UNIQUE, > filepath_guid BIGINT NOT NULL, > createtime TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE DEFAULT NULL, > writetime TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE DEFAULT NULL, > deletetime TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE DEFAULT NULL, > ); > > One "event" might have (1, '2012-01-25 11:00:00', NULL, NULL) and > another event might have (1, NULL, '2012-01-25 11:05:00', NULL) and the > end result should be: > (1, '2012-01-25 11:00:00', '2012-01-25 11:05:00', NULL). > > > I'm trying to modify pg_bulkload to "merge" two rows together. The > changes I have made seem to be working, although I would like input on > what I am doing that is unsafe or terribly wrong. You can be brutal. > > I've seen incredible write speed with using pg_bulkload. If I can just > get it to "consolidate" our rows based on the unique key it will remove > a lot of complexity in our software. > > Also, I'm not entirely sure this mailing list is the correct one, but > with all the internals you all know, I'm hoping you can help point out > nasty flaws in my algorithm. This is the first legitimate attempt I > have made at modifying PG source, so I'm not real familiar with the > proper way of loading pages and tuples and updating heaps and all that > pg core stuff. > > Here's the modifications to pg_btree.c (from pg_bulkload HEAD): > > http://pastebin.com/U23CapvR > > I also attached the patch.
I am not sure who maintains pg_bulkload, but it's not part of the core distribution, so this is the wrong mailing list.... you may want to look here: http://pgfoundry.org/mail/?group_id=1000261 -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers