Re: psql vs perl prepared inserts

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Matt Van Mater <matt(dot)vanmater(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: psql vs perl prepared inserts
Date: 2005-04-13 14:31:11
Message-ID: 20050413143111.GA7225@wolff.to
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On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:57:09 -0400,
Matt Van Mater <matt(dot)vanmater(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Also, I forgot to mention earlier that I tried using transactions to
> speed things up, but since I expect to see certain inserts fail I
> would need to rework my code so the whole transaction doesn't fail if
> one insert goes bad. This is somewhat contrary to the purpose of
> transactions so I'm not sure how to accomplish this. I saw roughly a
> 20% speed improvement by turning autocommit off and only committing at
> the end of parsing each file.

You might get a small benefit using savepoints in version 8.

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