Re: [INTERFACES] Fastest import?

AppGEN works nicely.

Peter T Mount wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Matthew Hagerty wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > What is the fastest way to import data from an ASCII file?  I have ~17,000
> > records in a .DBF file that I need to get into my pg6.4.2 database.  I have
> > written a program that reads the .DBF file, massages the data and writes it
> > out to a text file, one record per line.
> >
> > I initially had my program issue the insert commands instead of writing
> > them to a text file, but the import took about 2 hours!  We are only
> > talking about 4Meg worth of data here, it should not take that long should
> > it?  I was hoping that once in a text file that psql < text.file would be
> > faster, but it is not.  Is there any way to speed this up?
> >
> > I was also looking at the copy command and maybe using the binary mode, but
> > writing out binary data is not my idea of a good time and I'm on a deadline
> > here.  Is there a program out there that might take a text file of insert
> > statements and convert them to a binary format that copy can use?
> >
> > Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Why use binary? Just get your program to output Tab delimited ASCII
> data, and use ASCII COPY.
>
> Tip: Don't create your indices before the copy. It will load faster
> without them. Once the data's in there, then create them.
>
> Peter
>
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