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"Tom Lane" <tgl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> "Tomasz Rybak" <bogomips@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>> I tried to use COPY to im****t 27M rows to table:
>> CREATE TABLE sputnik.ccc24 (
>> station CHARACTER(4) NOT NULL REFERENCES sputnik.station24
(id),
>> moment INTEGER NOT NULL,
>> flags INTEGER NOT NULL
>> ) INHERITS (sputnik.sputnik);
>> COPY sputnik.ccc24(id, moment, station, strength, sequence, flags)
>> FROM '/tmp/24c3' WITH DELIMITER AS ' ';
>
> This is expected to take lots of memory because each row-requiring-check
> generates an entry in the pending trigger event list. Even if you had
> not exhausted memory, the actual execution of the retail checks would
> have taken an unreasonable amount of time. The recommended way to do
> this sort of thing is to add the REFERENCES constraint *after* you load
> all the data; that'll be a lot faster in most cases because the checks
> are done "in bulk" using a JOIN rather than one-at-a-time.
Hm, it occurs to me that we could still do a join against the pending
event
trigger list... I wonder how feasible it would be to store the pending
trigger
event list in a tem****ary table instead of in ram.
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