Re: Inserting a large number of records

Steve Wampler wrote:
> Oliver Jowett wrote:
>
>>Greg Alton wrote:
>>
>>
>>>What is the most efficient way to insert a large number of records into
>>>a table?
>>
>>
>>I use a PreparedStatement INSERT and addBatch() / executeBatch() with
>>autocommit off and no constraints or indexes present.
>
>
> Does anyone have an idea as to how the performance of this would compare
> to using a COPY?  I've used the COPY patches with jdbc and 7.4.x with
> impressive results, but if the above is 'nearly' as good then I don't have
> to put off upgrading to 8.x while waiting on jdbc to officially include
> support for COPY.  (I can't test the above right now. Maybe soon, though.)

I have one dataset that is about 20 million rows and takes about 40
minutes to import via batched INSERTs including translation from the
original format (I'd guess perhaps 10-15% overhead). The same dataset
dumped by pg_dump in COPY format takes about 15 minutes to restore
(using psql not JDBC though)

-O