Re: Loading 500m json files to database

On 3/24/20 11:29 AM, Kevin Brannen wrote:
> From: pinker <pinker(at)onet(dot)eu>
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>> it's a cloud and no plpythonu extension avaiable unfortunately
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> You're misunderstanding him. See David's post for an example, but the point was that you can control all of this from an *external* Perl, Python, Bash, whatever program on the command line at the shell.
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> In pseudo-code, probably fed by a "find" command piping filenames to it:
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> while more files
> do { read in a file name & add to list } while (list.length < 1000);
> process entire list with \copy commands to 1 psql command
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> I've left all kinds of checks out of that, but that's the basic thing that you need, implement in whatever scripting language you're comfortable with.
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> HTH,
> Kevin

Sorry if I missed it, but have we seen the size range of these json files?
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