# Loading Geolocation Data

DevFeed: [Loading Geolocation Data](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/loading-geolocation-data-34524.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tapoueh.org/blog/2013/10/loading-geolocation-data/>)

Author: Dimitri Fontaine PostgreSQL Major Contributor; Author

Published: 2013-10-01T14:52:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Dimitri Fontaine](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dimitri-fontaine.md>)

Topics: [Common Lisp](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/common-lisp.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>)

Tags: [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [lisp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/lisp.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>)

## AI overview

The article discusses rewriting pgloader from Python in Common Lisp. It explains configuration-language limitations, concerns about performance when loading larger files into databases, and the use of geolocation data as a test case for improving pgloader's data-loading workflow.

## Source excerpt

As I've been mentionning in the past already, I'm currently rewriting pgloader from scratch in Common Lisp. In terms of technical debt that's akin to declaring bankrupcy, which is both sad news and good news as there's suddenly new hope of doing it right this time.