Hi,
Ben Brehmer <benbrehmer@gmail.com> writes:
> By "Loading data" I am implying: "psql -U postgres -d somedatabase -f sql_file.sql". The sql_file.sql contains table
createsand insert statements. There are no
> indexes present nor created during the load.
>
> OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)
>
> PostgreSQL: I will try upgrading to latest version.
>
> COPY command: Unfortunately I'm stuck with INSERTS due to the nature
> this data was generated (Hadoop/MapReduce).
What I think you could do is the followings:
- switch to using 8.4
- load your files in a *local* database
- pg_dump -Fc
- now pg_restore -j X on the amazon setup
That way you will be using COPY rather than INSERTs and parallel loading
built-in pg_restore (and optimisations of when to add the indexes and
constraints). The X is to choose depending on the IO power and the
number of CPU...
Regards,
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dim
