Re: bulk inserts

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:38:05AM -0500, Dave Huber wrote:
> Using COPY is out of the question as the file is not formatted for
> that and since other operations need to occur, the file needs to be
> read sequentially anyway.

Just to expand on what Martin said; if you can generate a set of EXECUTE
commands, you can certainly generate a COPY command to insert the same
data.  The advantage is a large drop in parse time for inserting larger
numbers of rows.  As you're saying you want to insert 500 rows, I'd
suggest at least trying to get COPY working.

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