Quoth Theo.Galanakis@lonelyplanet.com.au (Theo Galanakis):
> Could you provide a example of how to do this?
>
> I actually ended up exporting the data as Insert statements,
> which strips out cf/lf within varchars. However it takes an eternity
> to import 200,000 records... 24 hours infact???? Is this normal?
I expect that this results from each INSERT being a separate
transaction.
If you put a BEGIN at the start and a COMMIT at the end, you'd
doubtless see an ENORMOUS improvement.
That's not even the _big_ improvement, either. The _big_ improvement
would involve reformatting the data so that you could use the COPY
statement, which is _way_ faster than a bunch of INSERTs. Take a look
at the documentation to see the formatting that is needed:
http://techdocs.postgresql.org/techdocs/usingcopy.php
http://www.faqs.org/docs/ppbook/x5504.htm
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/sql-copy.html
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