That sounds cool to me too..
How much work is to make pg_bulkload to work on 8.3? An Integrated
version is certainly more beneficial.
Specially I think it will also help for other setups like TPC-E too
where this is a problem.
Regards,
Jignesh
Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 18:15 +0100, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
>
>> Le mardi 05 février 2008, Simon Riggs a écrit :
>>
>>> I'll look at COPY FROM internals to make this faster. I'm looking at
>>> this now to refresh my memory; I already had some plans on the shelf.
>>>
>> Maybe stealing some ideas from pg_bulkload could somewhat help here?
>> http://pgfoundry.org/docman/view.php/1000261/456/20060709_pg_bulkload.pdf
>>
>
>
>> IIRC it's mainly about how to optimize index updating while loading data, and
>> I've heard complaints on the line "this external tool has to know too much
>> about PostgreSQL internals to be trustworthy as non-core code"... so...
>>
>
> Yeh, the batch index updates are a cool feature. Should be able to do
> that internally also.
>
> Not going to try the no-WAL route again though. If we can get it running
> efficiently and in parallel, then that will be OK.
>
>
