Re: [PATCHES] 8.2 features?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chris(dot)kings-lynne(at)calorieking(dot)com>, "Hackers (PostgreSQL)" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Susanne Ebrecht <susanne(dot)ebrecht(at)credativ(dot)de>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] 8.2 features?
Date: 2006-07-20 03:58:07
Message-ID: 23198.1153367887@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> writes:
> I did some testing today against mysql and found that it will easily
> absorb insert statements with 1 million targetlists provided you set
> max_allowed_packet high enough for the server. It peaked out at about
> 600MB, compared to my test similar last night where it was using about
> 3.8 GB when I killed it.

> So the question is, do we care?

What's the performance like relative to mysql? It seems hard to believe
that we can afford the overhead of a separate INSERT statement per row
(duplicating all the work of parse analysis, rewrite, planning, executor
start/stop) ... at least not without looking mighty bad.

regards, tom lane

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