Re: postponing index updates in a transaction - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bret Hughes
Subject Re: postponing index updates in a transaction
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Msg-id 1039599581.2864.7.camel@bretsony
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In response to postponing index updates in a transaction  (Jean-Christian Imbeault <jc@mega-bucks.co.jp>)
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On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 03:27, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:
> To speed up the inserting of many rows, is there a way to turn off any
> index update being done while inside a transaction and have the index be
> update at COMMIT?
>
> Something similar to the "initially deferred"  constraint.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jc
>
I don't think so.

The docs refer to this issue and suggest dropping the index, doing the
updates and then recreating the index.  using copy from is way faster
than individual inserts too.

Bret


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