On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Rense Corten <rcor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow, I'm almost embarrassed by how helpful you are, gentlemen. Thanks a > lot. > > As to RAM: I'm trying this on two different machines, one with 12 Gb > and one with 32 Gb RAM. I won't be able to get more in the near > future. Something that might be relevant is that the case of the 32Gb > machine, the database is on an AFS. > > Hmm, Jan suggested dedicating the memory to the cache, but if you can use 64-bit sqlite shell, and giving that you have 800 millions (or less) rows, maybe it's reasonable to switch completely to memory temporary storage? (PRAGMA temp_store=2;). In best scenario no disk will be involved until sqlite will be merging two b-trees for your "create table as" Max _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
