From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: growse <nabble@growse.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: How do I bulk insert to a table without affecting read performance on that table?
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:06:58 -0600
Message-ID: <dcc563d10801251806r1a1d202anb1da4c30f6be9a09@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Jan 25, 2008 5:27 PM, growse <nabble@growse.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've got a pg database, and a batch process that generates some metadata to
> be inserted into one of the tables. Every 15 minutes or so, the batch script
> re-calculates the meta data (600,000 rows), dumps it to file, and then does
> a TRUNCATE table followed by a COPY to import that file into the table.
>
> The problem is, that whilst this process is happening, other queries against
> this table time out. I've tried to copy into a temp table before doing an
> "INSERT INTO table (SELECT * FROM temp)", but the second statement still
> takes a lot of time and causes a loss of performance.
Can you import to another table then
begin;
alter table realtable rename to garbage;
alter table loadtable rename to realtable;
commit;
?
>
> So, what's the best way to import my metadata without it affecting the
> performance of other queries?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
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