Re: Moving delta data faster - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 4/3/24 20:54, yudhi s wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 2:41 AM Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
> <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>> wrote:
>
>    > Thank you Adrian.
>
> And one thing i forgot to mention this target postgresql database would
> be on AWS RDS whereas the source Oracle databases is on premise. I think
> we don't have the FDW extension currently in place but we can get that.
> I am just not able to understand clearly  though, but do you mean export
> the data from source using CSV and do truncate and import on target. And
> as these data will be moved through the network won't that cause slowness?
>
> The source database here is Oracle database. Correct me if wrong, it
> looks like foreign data wrapper is like a DB link. Or do you mean
> writing a query on the target database (which can be UPSERT or MERGE)
> but will be joining the table from the source database through the
> DBlink/DDW? But my question was whether we should use UPSERT or MERGE
> for comparing and loading the delta records to the target postgresql
> database. Want to understand which is more performant , as I see in the
> past Merge having performance issues in the past, but not very sure
> about that.

My motivation was to get some basic information about your setup and
what you are trying to achieve.

If I understand correctly you have:

1) An Oracle database with tables that you want to copy the complete
data from to a Postgres database. For this sort of thing
COPY(https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-copy.html) on the
Postgres end using CSV data generated from the source is probably the
quickest bulk load method.

2) After the initial load you want to do follow up INSERT/UPDATEs based
on a delta of the source tables relative to the initial load. This is
still a bit of mystery to me. How are determining the delta: a) On the
source end entirely or b) Target relative to source? Also what is the
anticipated size of the delta per transfer?

Additional information needed:

1) Network distance between source and target?

2) Network capacity?

3) Expected load on both source and target servers from other operations?