Re: Performance issues with compaq server

From: Steve Atkins <steve(at)blighty(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Performance issues with compaq server
Date: 2002-05-08 17:53:08
Message-ID: 20020508105308.A14127@blighty.com
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On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 11:02:35AM -0400, Doug McNaught wrote:
> Holger Marzen <holger(at)marzen(dot)de> writes:
>
> > ACK. On a given hardware I get about 150 inserts per second. Using a
> > begin/end transaction for a group of 100 inserts speeds it up to about
> > 450 inserts per second.
>
> COPY is even faster as there is less query parsing to be done, plus
> you get a transaction per COPY statement even without BEGIN/END.

Does anyone have any performance figures to hand on COPY vs BEGIN/INSERT/END,
on indexed or unindexed tables?

Cheers,
Steve

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