Yes, that's true, but isn't it significantly faster to use the bulk
loader for many records.
-Chris
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From: pgsql-jdbc-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-jdbc-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Guy Rouillier
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 4:37 PM
To: pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [JDBC] psql COPY with JDBC
Christopher Condit wrote:
> Hi All-
> I've been trying over at the general postgres list with no luck, so I
> thought I'd try here. I need to bulk load results from a Java
> application on one machine to a postgres db on a remote server. I
> know I can use psql interactively to accomplish this, but I'd like to
> be able to do it programmatically: 1) I noticed that there was
> a COPY patch floating around a couple of years ago - does this still
> exist. If so, has it been updated for the latest JDBC driver? 2)
> Is there a better way to accomplish this than the above patch - with
> or without JDBC?
Well, since you are using a Java application, you are not limited to
COPY, correct? You can generate whatever output format you want. In
that case, you can generate INSERT statements, right?
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Guy Rouillier
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