(Possibly naive question.)
The reason inserts are slow...
I've now seen this stated a few times on this thread and I don't fully understand the context everyone seems to be assuming. With a Perl client I can insert multiple records with a single insert command, over a network, and it seems to be nearly as fast as loading with the batch utility locally on the server. As I recall, I had to block less that 10,000 records or something choked, but multiple blocks loaded a fairly large database reasonably quickly. (I'm travelling and cannot verify this number at the moment.) It is import to load before specifying indexes, otherwise the index gets recalculated with each insert.
When people say inserts are slow: -Is this an R specific problem? -Is it assumed indexes are already specified? -Or am I missing something else once again? Thanks, Paul _______________________________________________ R-sig-DB mailing list -- R Special Interest Group R-sig-DB@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-db
