Re: Inserting a large number of records

It will never be as fast as COPY

Dave
On 14-Jul-05, at 11:41 AM, 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.)
>
> Thanks!
> Steve
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