Well, this would probably speed up the insertions, but then I would have
to spend more time on formatting file data. I could write a program to
do this, but since this is a one-time date import, it would not worth
the trouble.
Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Aage Johansen [mailto:aagjohan@...]
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:51 PM
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Import data from flat files
Importance: Low

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:22:02 +0000 (UTC), Oleg Lebedev wrote:

> Well, This seems like a convoluted way to import data from a flat
file > into a database. > What I ended up doing is importing data from
a flat file into my > PostgreSQL database. Then, using postgres pg_dump
utility, I exported > data from the postgres database in a file in a
form of INSERT > statements. Finally, I created my table in my FB
database and ran the > INSERTs script in there.


Using a script with INSERT statement surely must be slow!

Is the file with separators (|) the only format you can provide? (Use
fixed size fonts to read this!) If
1|36901|O|173665.47|1996-01-02|5-LOW|Clerk#000000951|0|blithely ...
2|78002|O|46929.18|1996-12-01|1-URGENT|Clerk#000000880|0|quickly ...
...
could be transformed into (removing separators, using fixed length
fields)
136901O173665.471996-01-025-LOW Clerk#000000951|0|blithely ...
278002O 46929.181996-12-011-URGENTClerk#000000880|0|quickly ... ... you
can use the (very fast) external tables with a table definition like
o_orderkey char(1),
o_custkey char(5),
o_orderstatus char(1),
o_totalprice char(9),
o_orderdate char(10),
o_orderpriority char(8),
o_clerk char (...),
...
(adjusted to your needs).


--
Aage J.



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