Re: Disabling WAL for bulk data loads

On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 08:15:50PM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> > Well, COPY will give you the best performance. It's also fairly flexable
> > when it comes to formatting. It shouldn't be difficult to get Oracle's
> > export tool to generate data that COPY can load.
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> With Oracle, everything is difficult. Their export utility does not have
> a way to dump things as a series of INSERT commands, nor as tab-delimited
> data. There are other tools/scripts around that can do this, but as a
> general rule, the word "difficult" is one of the more mild adjectives
> usually found in the same sentence as "Oracle utility". :)

Can't it export CSV? Copy can deal with CSV.
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