Re: Bug#675106: ITP: pgbulkload -- A high speed data loading utility for PostgreSQL
>>>>> Alexander Kuznetsov <acca@cpan.org> writes:
[…]
(Some wording fixes and suggestions.)
> Description : A high speed data loading utility for PostgreSQL
> pg_bulkload is designed to load huge amount of data to a database.
> You can choose whether database constraints are checked and how many errors are
If “You can…” here starts a new paragraph, there's ought to be
an empty (“.”) line. And if not, the linebreak here came a bit
too early than necessary.
> ignored during the loading. For example, you can skip integrity checks for
> performance when you copy data from another database to PostgreSQL. On the
> other hand, you can enable constraint checks when loading unclean data.
> .
Are “constraint checks” different to “integrity checks” in the
above? Unless they are, it should rather be, e. g.:
… For example, you can skip integrity checks for performance when you
copy data from another database to PostgreSQL, or have them in place
when loading potentially unclean data.
> The original goal of pg_bulkload was an faster alternative of COPY command in
… was /a/ faster…
Or, perhaps: … was to provide a faster…
> PostgreSQL, but version 3.0 or later has some ETL features like input data
> validation and data transformation with filter functions.
> .
… but as of version 3.0 some ETL features… were added.
And what's ETL, BTW?
> In version 3.1, pg_bulkload can convert the load data into the binary file
> which can be used as an input file of pg_bulkload. If you check whether
Perhaps:
As of version 3.1, pg_bulkload can dump the preprocessed data into a
binary file, allowing for…
(Here, the purpose should be mentioned. Is this for improving
the performance of later multiple “bulkloads”, for instance?)
> the load data is valid when converting it into the binary file, you can skip
> the check when loading it from the binary file to a table. Which would reduce
> the load time itself. Also in version 3.1, parallel loading works
> more effectively than before.
s/effectively/efficiently/. But the whole sentence makes little
sense, as the earlier versions weren't packaged for Debian.
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