On 04/03/2008, Don Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a quick look at this a few months back, shortly before our 3-library > consortium decided on Primo. The biggest drawback I found was the problem of > loading lots of records in one big hit. I think I've seen discussion of late > on the -DEV list that shows some improvements in this area, but I was stuck > loading batches of (at most) 40,000 records at a time, and didn't see a way > to easily, regularly, automate the loading of our 4,000,000 bib records.
For what it's worth, the relatively recent improvement is the use of parallel_pg_loader.pl which removes the memory bottleneck. I look forward to loading about a half million bib records sometime this week, if I get a few free hours to set things up. -- Dan Scott Laurentian University
