Re: large xml database

Viktor Bojovic' wrote:
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> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 2:26 AM, James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com 
> <mailto:cloos@jhcloos.com>> wrote:
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>     >>>>> "VB" == Viktor Bojovic' <viktor.bojovic@gmail.com
>     <mailto:viktor.bojovic@gmail.com>> writes:
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>     VB> i have very big XML documment which is larger than 50GB and
>     want to
>     VB> import it into databse, and transform it to relational schema.
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>     Were I doing such a conversion, I'd use perl to convert the xml into
>     something which COPY can grok. Any other language, script or compiled,
>     would work just as well. The goal is to avoid having to slurp the
>     whole
>     xml structure into memory.
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>     -JimC
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>     James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com <mailto:cloos@jhcloos.com>>
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> The insertion into dabase is not very big problem.
> I insert it as XML docs, or as varchar lines or as XML docs in varchar 
> format. Usually i use transaction and commit after block of 1000 
> inserts and it goes very fast. so insertion is over after few hours.
> But the problem occurs when i want to transform it inside database 
> from XML(varchar or XML format) into tables by parsing.
> That processing takes too much time in database no matter if it is 
> stored as varchar lines, varchar nodes or XML data type.
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> Viktor Bojovic'
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> Wherever I go, Murphy goes with me

Are you saying you first load the xml into the database, then parse that 
xml into instance of objects (rows in tables)?