Re: Help with many updates

On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 16:31, Glenn MacGregor wrote:
> What is the preferred way to do many updates.  Right now I am just doing
> each row at a time, is there a better way?  I have about 1000 or so and it
> takes a good 45 seconds

If you are currently doing:
  INSERT...  INSERT...

you can speed it up by enclosing the whole lot in a single transaction:
  BEGIN  INSERT...  INSERT...  COMMIT

You can get it even faster by formatting the input data in a text file
and using the COPY command (not in a transaction).

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