Re: Loading optimization

From: "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net>
To: Gary Wesley <gary(at)db(dot)stanford(dot)edu>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Loading optimization
Date: 2001-01-06 21:45:26
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0101061644320.8905-100000@chapelperilous.net
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On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Gary Wesley wrote:

> Is there any advantage to having data sorted before populating it into a
> table?

None at all, AFAIK. In fact, if you are doing a bulk copy, you should
build your indexes after the data is loaded -- you'll get ebtter
performance during the load.

-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/~bmccoy/
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