Re: running a query file of 42MB - Mailing list pgsql-general

that is right Pierre, i use an other field nl. id that is incremented auto.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Pierre-Frédéric Caillaud [mailto:lists@boutiquenumerique.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 4:10 PM
To: Nefnifi, Kasem; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] running a query file of 42MB



    Don't use OIDs for primary keys, please, please.
    Use a Sequence instead, and replace your SELECT oid by SELECT
currval('sequence_name')



On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:44:56 +0100, Nefnifi, Kasem
<Kasem.Nefnifi@atosorigin.com> wrote:

> dear all,
>
> it is okay,
> the import by psql is faster and quit, it is running now.
> i've found an error in the query, it was the decimal separator that must
> be "." and not ",".
> now it's working.
> thx to all
> kasem,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nefnifi, Kasem
> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 2:28 PM
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: [GENERAL] running a query file of 42MB
>
>
>
> I'm trying to run query generated by an import script. postgresql 8
> onder windows XP.
> the file is about 42MB, i've opened this file by pgAdminIII and start
> the query, it inserts data into 3 tables and after makes some update.
> the time is too much and it hangs up without any commit.
>
> any body know another methode to run the query.
>
> i've tried with the command line psql, but get errors because the file
> is like:
>
> insert into table1 (pkey) values ('xxx');
> insert into table2 (pkey,field) values ('yyy',(select OID from table1
> where pkey='xxx'));
> update table1 set field1='a', field2='b', field3='c' where pkey = 'xxx';
>
> insert into table1 (pkey) values ('xxx');
> insert into table2 (pkey,field) values ('zzz',(select OID from table1
> where pkey='xxx'));
> update table1 set field1='u', field2='v', field3='q' where pkey = 'xxx';
> .
> .
> .etc
>
> the reason to do so is to get the OID for each record inserted into the
> table1 and use that in the table2.
> i've limited the query to 2 tables but there are more tables and also
> more related fields from the same table.
>
> in the psql i've tried this:
>> psql -d dbname -u username -f file.sql
> i've also tried with
>> psql -d dbname -u username < file.sql
>
> but get the error, pkey violatde. should i use a commit between each
> record ?
>
> regards,
> kasem,
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