On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Rob Sargent <robjsarg...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Viktor Bojovic' wrote:
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>> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 2:26 AM, James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com <mailto:
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>>    >>>>> "VB" == Viktor Bojovic' <viktor.bojo...@gmail.com
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>>    <mailto:viktor.bojo...@gmail.com>> writes:
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>>    VB> i have very big XML documment which is larger than 50GB and
>>    want to
>>    VB> import it into databse, and transform it to relational schema.
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>>    Were I doing such a conversion, I'd use perl to convert the xml into
>>    something which COPY can grok. Any other language, script or compiled,
>>    would work just as well. The goal is to avoid having to slurp the
>>    whole
>>    xml structure into memory.
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>>    -JimC
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>>    James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com <mailto:cl...@jhcloos.com>>
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>> The insertion into dabase is not very big problem.
>> I insert it as XML docs, or as varchar lines or as XML docs in varchar
>> format. Usually i use transaction and commit after block of 1000 inserts and
>> it goes very fast. so insertion is over after few hours.
>> But the problem occurs when i want to transform it inside database from
>> XML(varchar or XML format) into tables by parsing.
>> That processing takes too much time in database no matter if it is stored
>> as varchar lines, varchar nodes or XML data type.
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>> Viktor Bojovic'
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>> Wherever I go, Murphy goes with me
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> Are you saying you first load the xml into the database, then parse that
> xml into instance of objects (rows in tables)?
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Yes. That way takes less ram then using twig or simple xml, so I tried using
postgre xml functions or regexes.



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