Re: slow inserts

Jodi Kanter wrote:

> I am currently using a Perl data loader that was set up to load data to
three particular
> tables.
(Snip)
> I have placed some debugging syntax in the code and it seems that the
extra time if
> related to postgres as I had originally thought it may have to do with
the parsing of
> the Excel file.

You don't mention it, but I assume you are using DBI/pg. You are sure you
are setting up you
insert qyery handlers once and then reuse them? >s setting up a query
handler takes a lot of time.

ie

my $dbh=DBI->connect(dbi:Pg ...);

my $insh = $dbh->prepare("Insert into table values (?,?,?)";

foreach ($excelrow){
parse;
$insh->execute($data1,$data2,$data3);
}

I have written a few script of that kind my self, and I was really surprised
how much it mattered when I managed to move a $dbi->prepare out of the
insert loop.

regards

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