| From: | Doug McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org> |
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| To: | "Jay O'Connor" <joconnor(at)cybermesa(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: COPY versus INSERT |
| Date: | 2003-05-14 15:21:15 |
| Message-ID: | m3addpftas.fsf@varsoon.wireboard.com |
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"Jay O'Connor" <joconnor(at)cybermesa(dot)com> writes:
> I'm loading a database with a lot of data from an external source (I'm
> convertin all my data to postgresql)
>
> Right now I'm just connecting to the database and issuing a whole lot of
> INSERTS and this is taking longer than I had planned.
>
> Would it be faster to just dump my database ina tab delimited format and
> use a COPY FROM or psql /copy command?
Most definitely--the SQL parser and planner have to be run for each
INSERT. The parsing done by COPY is much simpler.
-Doug
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