[TriLUG] Awk question

[Ruffin Scott]

Like Robert, I think you have a bad implementation/approach. Unfortunately I
don't have anything constructive to suggest either.   I'm glad to see there
are other great responses.

Ruffin


On 8/8/07 7:58 AM, "Robert Dale" <robdale at gmail.com> wrote:

> As to why MySQL takes so long, I can only suspect that whatever
> processing code exists is very poorly implemented.  40k records, <30
> bytes each, is trivial.  The fact that there is some stored procedure
> to remove dupes instead of using a primary key or unique index to
> prevent insertion in the first place says a lot.

> 
> If MySQL is really that broken, you could always move to PostgreSQL ;-)