[postgis-users] On UpdateGeometrySRID() performance

[jerry73204]

Hi all,

I'm stuck in the low performance of UpdateGeometrySRID().

I get started with a 50GB polygon dataset in CSV in EPSG:4326 
coordinates. Since I find no way to `\copy` the csv while preserving the 
SRID, the data is imported with null SRID and then `SELECT 
UpdateGeometrySRID('table', 'column', 4326)`.

The `UpdateGeometrySRID()` takes as long time as that of `\copy`, which 
turns out to be approx two hours. The dataset has two geometry columns 
and thus I have to take triple time to finish this data.

I profiled the postgresql daemon. The avg disk writing speed is 30MB/s, 
while occasionally peaks to 100MB/s. The SSD, F2FS formatted disk is 
capable of up to 150MB/s. The daemon does not utilize the 4-core 
i5-7600k CPU. It seems to be a single process task with avg CPU load 
20%, while other workers are idle. I wonder if there's a room for 
improving the performance. Also, I'm looking for if it's possible to 
preserve SRID with `\copy`.

Jerry Lin