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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: terry@greatgulfhomes.com
Cc: Postgres (E-mail) <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: COPY optimization issue
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:52:30 -0400
Message-ID: <19014.1023976350@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003901c212dc$627a9120$2766f30a@development.greatgulfhomes.com>
References: <003901c212dc$627a9120$2766f30a@development.greatgulfhomes.com>

terry@greatgulfhomes.com writes:
> I currently just use the COPY command, but with over 800,000 records, this
> takes quite some time.
> Is there a faster way?

Drop and recreate indexes might help.  See
http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.2/postgres/populate.html

			regards, tom lane

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