Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Re: [GENERAL] Import German Decimal Numbers

Thomas Pundt wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2008, Jan Christian Dittmer wrote:
> | The (current) file is 1.4 GB so it will take ages to let awk chew on it
> | I guess.
>
> If you think awk is a bottleneck, I'd recommend using perl instead. It's waaay
> faster and should process your file within minutes if not faster.
>
isnt perl just another frontend for awk? ;)) SCNR ;)

There is also http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgloader/
and if not already implemented it should be fairly
easy to implement a data filter within this one.

Cheers
Tino

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