From: Marek Lewczuk <newsy@lewczuk.com>
To: Goutam Paruchuri <gparuchuri@oneil.com>
Cc: Lista dyskusyjna pgsql-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Cc: Lista dyskusyjna pgsql-sql <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: how to use COPY within plperl
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 20:14:22 +0100
Message-ID: <418FC58E.1000404@lewczuk.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B2C547DF42419645804F05B54290755ADC7C9A@DAYTONEX.oneilinc.net>
References: <B2C547DF42419645804F05B54290755ADC7C9A@DAYTONEX.oneilinc.net>
Goutam Paruchuri wrote:
> Why can you not use simple insert statements (sql insert).
> Copy is meant to transfer large amount of data from text files to
> databases and vice versa.
"Insert" is much slower if there are many (hundreds, thousands) data to
be inserted - and in my case there will be thousands of inserts made by
plperl. I can make a file with the data (and load using COPY), but it
would be better to use copy from stdin.
Thanks
ML
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