Re: [MonetDB-users] Fast Loading

Alex Bo. wrote:

Hi,

I came across chapter 3.2.8 in the documentation regarding 'Fast Loading'. I am trying to use it in order to improve the performance I get compared to loading tables using 'COPY INTO'. However, I am not sure how to approach this: "Each file is produced by a program that writes the binary image of the BAT directly, i.e. a binary dump of an C-array" This documentation went online a little too early ;) We will report on the approach more extensively and with supportive tools after we finished the Skyserver production version.

How exactly can I produce these binary images from my source columns? How exactly are they expected by MonetDB to look like? A little more info could be very helpful.

Thanks.