On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 12:05 -0300, Valter Douglas Lisbôa Jr. wrote:
> Hello all, I have a perl script thats load a entire day squid log to a 
> postgres table. I run it at midnight by cronjob and turns off the indexes 
> before do it (turning it on after). The script works fine, but I want to 
> change this to a diferent approach.

Exactly how do you turn off the indexes?

> 
> I'd like to insert on the fly the log lines, so long it be generated to have 
> the data on-line. But the table has some indexes and the load of lines is 
> about 300.000/day, so the average inserting is 3,48/sec. I think this could 
> overload the database server (i did not test yet), so if I want to create a 
> no indexed table to receive the on-line inserting and do a job moving all 
> lines to the main indexed table at midnight.
> 
> My question is, Does exists a better solution, or this tatic is a good way to 
> do this?

300,000 inserts a day isn't that much for any reasonable server.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



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