On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Jim Garrison <jim.garri...@nwea.org> wrote:

> An ETL "job" runs inside its own transaction and consists of a series of
> queries that transform the data from staging tables to the destination
> tables.  If a failure occurs, the transaction rolls back so there's no
> "debris" left over -- which makes troubleshooting very difficult.
>

If you are loading huge amount of data then:

1) Committing every 10000 (or so) rows might make sense
2) Have you considered using COPY API in Postgres' JDBC?
3) Which version of PostgreSQL are you using? I guess 9.3 has a freeze
option which might help you. I am not sure if the API supports it.



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