> > On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 07:22, Christoph Haller wrote: > > I've noticed subsequent executions of the same insert command are slow. > > I've searched the list archives for this matter and found several > > entries > > related, including suggestions how to speed up. > > The standard answer from the core team is, use COPY. > > Sorry, but this is from an application point of view not really an > > option > > if you're dealing with program variables. > > What do you mean by "program variables"? If you're just referring to > variables in the programming language the DB client is written in, I see > no reason why you couldn't use COPY to input those. > Interesting. Suppose you have a C application fragment like
for (CmdIndex = start_index; CmdIndex < nRows; CmdIndex++) { sprintf(CmdLine, "INSERT INTO AArray_Values ( Primary_Key, List_Pointer,\ Parameter_Name, Parameter_Code,\ Dim_Pointer, File_Pointer, Source_Type )\ VALUES ( %d,%d,'%s',%d,%d,%d,'%s' );", AArray_Values[CmdIndex].primary_key, AArray_Values[CmdIndex].value_list_ptr, AArray_Values[CmdIndex].parameter_name, AArray_Values[CmdIndex].parameter_code, AArray_Values[CmdIndex].dim_pointer, AArray_Values[CmdIndex].file_pointer, AArray_Values[CmdIndex].source_type); /* call PQexec() to process */ } How would you replace this by COPY? Hoping I'm not partially out of order but I cannot see how to achieve that. Thanks for your time. Regards, Christoph ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster