On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Dave Huber < dhu...@letourneautechnologies.com> wrote:
> All I have to say is wow! COPY works sooo much faster than the iterative > method I was using. Even after having to read the entire binary file and > reformat the data into the binary format that postgres needs it is an order > of magnitude faster than using a prepared INSERT. At least that’s what my > prelim testing is showing me. I will have to let it run for a while with a > larger table to see how it performs in the longrun, but initially this is > very positive. > you can also try wrapping whole bunch of inserts in a transaction block. -- GJ
