Re: slow insert speeds with bytea

On 12/1/19 9:59 AM, Alex O'Ree wrote:
> Is there anything I can to increase insert speeds for bytea? Currently
> running postgres 9.6.15
>
> I have a few tables without a bytea and a few with bytea. There is a
> large performance difference with inserts between the two. I'm inserting
> a byte[] that's usually less than 1MB on content. The content itself is
> actually just utf8 string data.
>
> For the non-bytea table, inserts can be as high as 40k rows/sec, whereas
> the bytea table is closer to 4k/sec or less.
>
> If this is just a limitation of postgres, then that's fine but the
> performance delta is so significant that i feel like i'm missing something

It would help to have more information:

1) The schema of the table e.g. the output of \d in psql.

2) The actual INSERT query.

3) An EXPLAIN ANALYZE of the INSERT query.

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Adrian Klaver
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