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From: Luke Lonergan <llonergan@greenplum.com>
To: Adonias Malosso <malosso@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Best practice to load a huge table from ORACLE to PG
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:13:34 -0700
Message-ID: <C438A2BE.5C656%llonergan@greenplum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8a5d3c890804260625o7ad0700fp79f951c58c242720@mail.gmail.com>

Yep ­ just do something like this within sqlplus (from
http://www.dbforums.com/showthread.php?t=350614):

set termout off
set hea off
set pagesize 0

spool c:\whatever.csv

select a.a||','||a.b||','||a.c
from a
where a.a="whatever";

spool off

COPY is the fastest approach to get it into PG.

- Luke

On 4/26/08 6:25 AM, "Adonias Malosso" <malosso@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I´d like to know what´s the best practice to LOAD a 70 milion rows, 101
> columns table 
> from ORACLE to PGSQL.
> 
> The current approach is to dump the data in CSV and than COPY it to
> Postgresql.
> 
> Anyone has a better idea.
> 
> 
> Regards
> Adonias Malosso
> 

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