On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 10:36:58AM -0700, Dann Corbit wrote:
Nope, truncate is undoubtedly faster. But it also means you would have
downtime as you mentioned. If it were me, I'd probably make the
trade-off of using a delete inside a transaction.
For every record in a bulk loaded table?
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From: Jim C. Nasby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: Dann Corbit
Cc: Ben-Nes Yonatan; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Populating huge tables each day
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 01:05:42PM -0700, Dann Corbit wrote
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 10:36:58AM -0700, Dann Corbit wrote:
Nope, truncate is undoubtedly faster. But it also means you would have
downtime as you mentioned. If it were me, I'd probably make the
trade-off of using a delete inside a transaction.
For every record in a bulk loaded table?
Hi All,
First I apologize for the length of this email im just afraid that my
problem is quite complicated for explination also about my english
which is not my native language sorry :)
I'm currently building a site for a client which will need to update his
database on a daily routine
Of Ben-Nes Yonatan
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 1:13 PM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: [GENERAL] Populating huge tables each day
Hi All,
First I apologize for the length of this email im just afraid that my
problem is quite complicated for explination also about my english
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 12:43:57PM -0700, Dann Corbit wrote:
I see a lot of problems with this idea.
You mention that the database is supposed to be available 24x7.
While you are loading, the database table receiving data will not be
available. Therefore, you will have to have one server
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From: Jim C. Nasby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 12:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Populating huge tables each day
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 12:43:57PM -0700, Dann Corbit
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 01:05:42PM -0700, Dann Corbit wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Jim C. Nasby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 12:58 PM
To: Dann Corbit
Cc: Ben-Nes Yonatan; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Populating huge tables
