On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 18:15 +0100, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > Le mardi 05 février 2008, Simon Riggs a écrit : > > I'll look at COPY FROM internals to make this faster. I'm looking at > > this now to refresh my memory; I already had some plans on the shelf. > > Maybe stealing some ideas from pg_bulkload could somewhat help here? > http://pgfoundry.org/docman/view.php/1000261/456/20060709_pg_bulkload.pdf > IIRC it's mainly about how to optimize index updating while loading data, and > I've heard complaints on the line "this external tool has to know too much > about PostgreSQL internals to be trustworthy as non-core code"... so... Yeh, the batch index updates are a cool feature. Should be able to do that internally also. Not going to try the no-WAL route again though. If we can get it running efficiently and in parallel, then that will be OK. -- Simon Riggs 2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
