Re: Postgres batch write very slow - what to do

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: femski <hypertree(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres batch write very slow - what to do
Date: 2007-03-13 15:56:11
Message-ID: 45F6C99B.1080507@enterprisedb.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> It sounds like you're incurring a network round trip for each row, which
> will be expensive even for a co-located application. Perhaps Oracle's
> JDBC driver is smart enough to avoid that. I'm not sure what tricks are
> available for bulk loading with our JDBC driver --- the page Heikki
> mentioned explains things from a server perspective but I dunno how that
> translates into JDBC. The folks who hang out on pgsql-jdbc could
> probably give you some tips.

OP said he's using addBatch/executeBatch with a batch size of 100. The
JDBC driver sends the whole batch before waiting for responses.

--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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