Re: PARALLEL CTAS

Copy operations are by far the most efficient way to do bulk loads.  The
fdw extension isn't very efficient based on prior experience.

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 11:17 AM Shane Borden <sborden76@gmail.com> wrote:

> Based on testing thus far, it appears that the only way to get a bulk load
> operation (similar to oracle) would be to use the COPY command or to use
> multiple connections and break up the inserts across connections.  I did
> see a possibility of using the postgres_fdw extension and use the batch
> functionality, but I haven’t tested that yet.
>
> Does anyone know the status of this feature / patch that was discussed in
> this link?
>
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAJcOf-cXnB5cnMKqWEp2E2z7Mvcd04iLVmV%3DqpFJrR3AcrTS3g%40mail.gmail.com
>
> Is there a way in PostgreSQL to parallelize a CTAS statement similar to
> how you can do it in Oracle?
>
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> Thanks,
>
>
> Shane Borden
> sborden76@gmail.com
>
>