From: Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Greetings folks, dumb question maybe?
Date: 13 May 2010 10:09:51 GMT
Message-ID: <hsgj5f$o21$1@reversiblemaps.ath.cx> (raw)
References: <4BEAE646.9050902@ttitech.net>
On 2010-05-12, Josh <jgooding@ttitech.net> wrote:
> Hello, I'm a little new at this so please bear with me.
>
> I am trying to create a function that loads 100M test records into a
> database, however I am having a hard time building the function that
> does so.
>
> I'm trying to do this in PGAdmin III for Ubuntu. Is there something
> that I have wrong with this? I know that this works in MySQL (and yes I
> know that MySQL bends the SQL Standards), but I am not sure what I am
> doing wrong exactly. I am coming up with the error that says there's an
> error in my syntax near the v INTEGER := 0 line. I get the same error
> in psql as I do in the PGAdmin III.
>
> I have the following so far:
>
> DECLARE
> v INTEGER := 0;
> BEGIN
> while v < 100000000
> DO
> INSERT INTO unpart_tbl_test VALUES
> (v, 'test string data', adddate('1995-01-01', (rand(v)*36520) mod 3652));
> v := v + 1;
> END WHILE;
> END;
>
> Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
>
> - J
don't need a function for that one.
INSERT INTO unpart_tbl_test
SELECT GENERATE_SERIES(0,9999999),
'teststring data',
date '1995-01-01' +(floor(random()*36520)::int % 3652);
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