Re: LOCK TABLE & speeding up mass data loads

On Sun, 25 Jan 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:

> > Oh, and you're using COPY right?
>
> No.  Too much data manipulation to do 1st.  Also, by committing every
> X thousand rows, then if the process must be aborted, then there's
> no huge rollback, and the script can then skip to the last comitted
> row and pick up from there.

I don't see how the amount of data manipulation makes a difference.
Where you now issue a BEGIN, issue a COPY instead. Where you now INSERT,
just print the data for the columns, separated by tabs. Where you now
issue a COMMIT, end the copy.

cjs
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