On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 15:33, Ericson Smith wrote:
> You probably want to have a process that constantly stores the data in a
> text file. Every "n" minutes, you will cause the logger to rotate the
> text file, then process that batch.
Does the logger spawn the DB writer?
> Over here, we are able to dump around 5,000 records per second in one of
> our tables using that methodology.
>
> - Ericson Smith
> eric@did-it.com
>
> On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 16:27, alex b. wrote:
> > Doug McNaught wrote:
> > > Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> > >
> > >
> > >>On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 21:46, Tom Lane wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> > >>>
> > >>>>On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 11:00, Tom Lane wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>>Have you thought about using COPY?
> > >>>
> > >>>>Generate a temporary file, and then system("COPY /tmp/foobar ...") ?
> > >>>
> > >>>No, copy from stdin. No need for a temp file.
> > >>
> > >>But wouldn't that only work if the input stream is acceptable to
> > >>COPY ?
> > >
> > >
> > > Yes, but you could always pipe it through a script or C program to
> > > make it so...
> >
> > lets say I have an about 1kb/s continuus datastream comming in for many
> > hours and I'd like to store this data in my db using COPY table FROM stdin.
> >
> > At what time should I COMMIT or close the stream to feed the database
> > and COPY FROM again?
> >
> >
> >
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