Dimitri, thank you for your quoting. I'm a pg_bulkload author.
pg_bulkload is optimized especially for appending data to table with indexes.
If you use it, you don't need to drop index before loading data. But you have to
consider conditions carefully as Dimitri said below. See also pg_bulkload README:
http://pgfoundry.org/docman/view.php/1000261/473/README.pg_bulkload-2.2.0.txt
Best regards,
Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le Sunday 04 November 2007 11:22:19 Reg Me Please, vous avez écrit :
>> That is, should I drop all indexes during a "COPY ... FROM" in order to
>> gain the maximum speed to load data?
>
> When looking for a way to speed up data loading, you may want to consider
> pgbulkload, a project which optimizes index creation while loading data, and
> bypass constraints: it's useful when you know you trust input.
> As I've never used it myself, I can only provides following links:
>
> http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgbulkload
> http://pgfoundry.org/docman/view.php/1000261/456/20060709_pg_bulkload.pdf
>
> Regards,
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