Thanks for sharing :)
Pure awesomeness!
On 4 April 2015 at 12:01, Steve Midgley <science@misuse.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I used to participate on this list awhile back (2008?). I migrated off to
> other stuff, but I'm back doing some Pg work recently. I don't have a
> question, but I wanted to share my experiences, since I think the core
> members of this community don't get thanked enough.
>
> Today I had a burly (for me) problem involving transforming some text into
> some json fields for ~1M rows. Running with middleware doing the schema
> transforms I was getting maybe 100 rows per second. Ugh. I could go back to
> the original couchdb project, but double ugh. So I re-wrote with native
> Postgres SQL:
>
> update raw_documents set
> identity = json_extract_path(raw_data::json, 'identity'::text),
> keys = json_extract_path(raw_data::json, 'keys'::text),
> payload_schema = json_extract_path(raw_data::json, 'payload_schema'::text)
>
> I don't even know how many rows per second b/c it came back in less than 5
> minutes - maybe 3k rows per second?
>
> I just wanted to write to say thank you to everyone who builds, supports and
> participates in the Postgres community. I'm done dinking around with
> different tool chains. If I have to persist something again, I'm doing it
> with Postgres, I don't care if it's json, xml, cols/rows or blobs. If I
> can't put save it to the filesystem, it's going in Pg. :)
>
> Per the subject, this is an "anti-question" -- just sharing on Friday
> afternoon that Postgres is working perfectly - just as it should: fast,
> reliable, easy, conformant. Have a nice weekend and thank you!
>
> Steve
>
>
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