Re: Most effective and fast way to load few Tbyte of data from flat files into postgresql

On 2020-08-24 21:17:36 +0000, Dirk Krautschick wrote:
> what would be the fastest or most effective way to load few (5-10) TB
> of data from flat files into a postgresql database, including some 1TB
> tables and blobs?
>
> There is the copy command but there is no way for native parallelism,
> right? I have found pg_bulkload but haven't tested it yet. As far I
> can see EDB has its EDB*Loader as a commercial option.

A single COPY isn't parallel, but you can run several of them in
parallel (that's what pg_restore -j N does). So the total time may be
dominated by your largest table (or I/O bandwidth).

        hp

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