Re: High inserting by syslog

On Thursday 03 July 2008 13:03:49 Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 12:05 -0300, Valter Douglas Lisbôa Jr. wrote:
> > Hello all, I have a perl script thats load a entire day squid log to a
> > postgres table. I run it at midnight by cronjob and turns off the indexes
> > before do it (turning it on after). The script works fine, but I want to
> > change this to a diferent approach.
>
> Exactly how do you turn off the indexes?
DROP/CREATE

>
> > I'd like to insert on the fly the log lines, so long it be generated to
> > have the data on-line. But the table has some indexes and the load of
> > lines is about 300.000/day, so the average inserting is 3,48/sec. I think
> > this could overload the database server (i did not test yet), so if I
> > want to create a no indexed table to receive the on-line inserting and do
> > a job moving all lines to the main indexed table at midnight.
> >
> > My question is, Does exists a better solution, or this tatic is a good
> > way to do this?
>
> 300,000 inserts a day isn't that much for any reasonable server.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
Thanks

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