Re: Difference between Bulk Load (Multiple inserts or single inserts) and COPY

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On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 03:39:24PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/sql-copy.html
> Description:
>
> Hello,
>
> > I experimented with Bulk load and COPY.
> > Loading in COPY was very fast.
> > However, after COPYing data from a CSV file to PostgreSQL Table. The
> query
> > execution took lot of time for 1 of the first 4 queries.
> > Only this slow query was taking so much time, that even if I had used
> normal
> > bulk load, it would have been faster in total.
> > Then all other Query executions took equal time as it took while querying
> a
> > table after the Bulk data load method.
> >
> > So, I want to know the exact reason what's the issue with COPY.
> > How exactly they differ? The only thing from the document I could
> identify
> > was row security.
> > But it did not mention anything about indexing. Like, in Bulk load, do
> > indices(or constraint checks) are created with data loading?
> > & in COPY it's done after? so when indices are being created that query
> > slows down??
>
> *Added details*
>
> "Table & Query details"
> I have 1 Table is there having 3 attributes:
> TableName{ Column1 Varchar300, Column2 Varchar300, Column3 Varchar300};
> I haven't created any primary keys or FKs. No other constraints.
>
> Data set size: 150MB / 1M records
>
> Queries:
> Select count(*) from Table;
> Select count(distinct( Column1, Column2 , Column3 )) from Table;
> Select Column1, Column2, Column3 from Table as T1, Table as T2, Table as T3
> where T1. Column1=T2.Column3 and T1. Column1="xyz";
>
> Please let me know, how Bulk load vs. COPY different in both situations
> 1) Do the internal representation differs after data is loaded using Bulk
> vs. COPY?
> 2) what if I have added Keys and Constraints, are they checked later? Means
> loading is shown completed but in background it's creating indices/checking
> constraints.
> 3) Can it be the reason that some other process(which?) is running in
> background during query execution ? as I query the data as soon as the load
> after COPY is complete.

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