Re: Faster data load

From: Dominique Devienne <ddevienne(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Faster data load
Date: 2024-09-09 07:25:43
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On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 8:27 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> wrote:
> > simple INSERT ... SELECT was more than twice as fast as 8 parallel COPY
> > operations (and about 8 times as fast as a single COPY).
>
> Yeah they seem to have changed a great deal. Though you are correct in
> saying COPY is not faster then INSERT..SELECT

Interesting. Thanks for sharing. Although to be fair, that adds CSV parsing
to the mix, something INSERT-FROM-SELECT does not have to do,
skewing the results a little maybe. Comparing against COPY BINARY
would be fairer, but less practical I guess. --DD

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