Re: Improving PostgreSQL insert performance

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Frits Jalvingh <jal(at)etc(dot)to>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kenneth Marshall <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu>, Andreas Kretschmer <andreas(at)a-kretschmer(dot)de>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Improving PostgreSQL insert performance
Date: 2017-06-11 02:32:14
Message-ID: 20170611023214.r2yucev656ojv3pi@alvherre.pgsql
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Frits Jalvingh wrote:

> So, I am still very interested in getting normal inserts faster, because
> that will gain speed for all work.. If Oracle can do it, and Postgres is
> able to insert fast with copy- where lies the bottleneck with the insert
> command? There seems to be quite a performance hit with the JDBC driver
> itself (as the stored procedure is a lot faster), so I can look into that.
> But even after that there is quite a gap..

Did you try inserting multiple tuples in one command? Something like
INSERT INTO .. VALUES ('col1', 'col2'), ('col1', 'col2'), ('col1', 'col2')
It's supposed to be faster than single-row inserts, though I don't
know by how much.

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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