[postgis-devel] [postgis-users] Changing transaction behaviour in shp2pgsql

[Chris Hodgson]

It's chunked because loading records individually is significantly 
slower, and doing one large transaction can easily run you out of 
memory/transaction space.

Chris

strk wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 04:58:02PM +0700, Ben Madin wrote:
>
>   
>> in the event I can't work out the encoding, is there any way to turn off the transaction behaviour, ie I'm happy to miss 4 records, but not 1000 as a result of the transactions being aborted. (short of putting it all into a text file and removing all the begin and commit commands...)
>>     
>
> Feel like working on a patch to make "transaction policy" selectable
> with a switch ?
>
>   -T <policy> transaction policy (single*,none)
>
> Current policy is chunked, dunno for what rationale..
>
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