From: | Vincenzo Romano <vincenzo(dot)romano(at)notorand(dot)it> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>, Amy Smith <vah123(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: postgres external table |
Date: | 2010-01-18 17:13:59 |
Message-ID: | 3eff28921001180913m54d17a4at5a92220ee41401e3@mail.gmail.com |
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2010/1/18 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
> Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> Craig Ringer wrote:
>>> For those non-Oracle users among us, what's an external table?
>
>> External tables let you map a text file directly to a table without
>> explicitly loading it. In PostgreSQL, if you have data in a CSV file,
>> usually you'd import it with COPY before you'd use it. If external
>> tables were available, you'd just say there's an external table as a CSV
>> file and you could start running queries against it.
>
> I'm finding it hard to visualize a use-case for that. We must postulate
> that the table is so big that you don't want to import it, and yet you
> don't feel a need to have any index on it. Which among other things
> implies that every query will seqscan the whole table. Where's the
> savings?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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Another case, Tom, could be when the file is updated from a non-DB
application and you need to synchronize
the data with other DB applications ...
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Vincenzo Romano
NotOrAnd Information Technologies
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