[ic] Trying to import 50,000 items

[Fred Pope]

"I am trying to import a catalog of roughly 50,000 items and I am finding
the import from the admin ui too slow (timing out on webserver).
Database is PostgreSQL 7.1.3 and Interchange 4.8.3.  Is there a command line
utility to allow this from a tab delineated file."

Try using vi to edit the file and modify it into a bunch of SQL statements.

First Replace each beginning of the line with something like:

insert into tablename (column1, column2, column3....) values '

:%g/^/s//INSERT INTO.../

Next replace each tab with a

','

:%g/^I/s//','/g

then replace each end of the line with a

');

:%g/$/s//');/

write the file..

then do this:

psql -e yourdatabasename < yourfilename

It should not take very long to import all the data. On a good server, you
can probably run several statements in a second. So 50,000 divided by
however fast your server runs the statements.
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