Re: Performace Optimization for Dummies

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On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 01:53:22PM -0400, Carlo Stonebanks wrote:
> > are you using the 'copy' interface?
> 
> Straightforward inserts - the import data has to transformed, normalised and 
> de-duped by the import program. I imagine the copy interface is for more 
> straightforward data importing. These are - buy necessity - single row 
> inserts.

BTW, stuff like de-duping is something you really want the database -
not an external program - to be doing. Think about loading the data into
a temporary table and then working on it from there.
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Jim Nasby                                            jim@xxxxxxxxx
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