Re: [GENERAL] COPY with default values won't work?
Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru>
From: Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru>
To: Charles Tassell <ctassell@isn.net>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1999-03-24T07:31:14Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Charles Tassell wrote: > > @#$#!! Any way to make COPY use default, or shove a lot of data in with a > single INSERT query? According to older messages in the mailing list, it > is *possible*, but I can't get it to work. > > My problem is that I might be using this to put a few thousand entries in > the db every night, and when I last attempted this using a few thousand > insert statements, it was awfully slow (on the order of taking HOURS) @#$#!! -:) Use BEGIN/END to insert a few thousand rowes in SINGLE transaction. Vadim