From: Ryan Hansen <ryan.hansen@brightbuilders.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Improve COPY performance for large data sets
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:48:41 -0600
Message-ID: <48C7FA69.1080507@brightbuilders.com> (raw)
Greetings,
I'm relatively new to PostgreSQL but I've been in the IT applications
industry for a long time, mostly in the LAMP world.
One thing I'm experiencing some trouble with is running a COPY of a
large file (20+ million records) into a table in a reasonable amount of
time. Currently it's taking about 12 hours to complete on a 64 bit
server with 3 GB memory allocated (shared_buffer), single SATA 320 GB
drive. I don't seem to get any improvement running the same operation
on a dual opteron dual-core, 16 GB server.
I'm not asking for someone to solve my problem, just some direction in
the best ways to tune for faster bulk loading, since this will be a
fairly regular operation for our application (assuming it can work this
way). I've toyed with the maintenance_work_mem and some of the other
params, but it's still way slower than it seems like it should be.
So any contributions are much appreciated.
Thanks!
P.S. Assume I've done a ton of reading and research into PG tuning,
which I have. I just can't seem to find anything beyond the basics that
talks about really speeding up bulk loads.
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