Re: Question on Insert / Update

Will give that a try. thanks.
was actually interested if the 2nd approach is common practice or if
there are some reasons not to do it that way.

Alex

Sean Davis wrote:

>On 11/9/05 9:45 AM, "Alex" <alex(at)meerkatsoft(dot)com> wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>have just a general question...
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>>I have a table of 10M records, unique key on 5 fields.
>>I need to update/insert 200k records in one go.
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>>I could do a select to check for existence and then either insert or update.
>>Or simply insert, check on the error code an update if required.
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>>The 2nd seems to be to logical choice, but will it actually be faster
>>and moreover is that the right way to do it?
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>Probably the fastest and most robust way to go about this if you have the
>records in the form of a tab-delimited file is to COPY or \copy (in psql)
>them into a separate loader table and then use SQL to manipulate the records
>(check for duplicates, etc) for final insertion into the table.
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>Sean
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