Christopher Condit wrote:
> Yes, that's true, but isn't it significantly faster to use the bulk
> loader for many records.
That all depends, are you including the time to customize and maintain
the code? The INSERT method will work without changing any driver code.
I dumped an Oracle database using ora2pg, which generates INSERT
statements, and I inserted 8 million rows fairly fast on mediocre
hardware (dual 1 GHz Pentium III).
>
> -Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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?
--
Guy Rouillier
