On 20 March 2012 22:21, David Kerr <dmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm imagining that you're loading the raw file into a temporary table that > you're going to use to > process / slice new data data into your 7000+ actual tables per stock. Thanks! would "slice new data data into your 7000+ actual tables per stock." be a relatively quick operation? > > So that table doesn't probably need to be around once you've processed your > stocks through > that table. so you could just truncate/drop it after you're done. > > When you create it, if you avoid indexes the inserts will be faster (it > doesn't have to rebuild the index every > insert) so then once the table is loaded, you create the indexes (So it's > actually useful) and then process the > data into the various stock tables. > > Dave > > > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general