Re: Bulk Insert/Update Scenario

From: "Peter J(dot) Holzer" <hjp-pgsql(at)hjp(dot)at>
To: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Bulk Insert/Update Scenario
Date: 2018-01-31 17:32:51
Message-ID: 20180131173251.lxiqp3yyy5q7fgvn@hjp.at
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On 2018-01-04 13:47:49 -0800, Mana M wrote:
> I was thinking about dumping everything into TEMP table and using that
> as source for INSERT ... ON CONFLICT. However, I was not sure on how
> to get thousands of rows from my Python application into TEMP table in
> one shot. Or is there any better alternatives?

Psycopg2 can decent support for copy:
http://initd.org/psycopg/docs/cursor.html#cursor.copy_from
(but I had problems copying more than 2GB from a StringIO buffer. Not
sure whether that was a problem with psycopg or StringIO.)

Alternatively you can just invoke psql -c '\copy ...'

hp

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