Re: Inserting heap tuples in bulk in COPY

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Inserting heap tuples in bulk in COPY
Date: 2011-08-12 21:59:13
Message-ID: 4E45A231.8040603@enterprisedb.com
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On 13.08.2011 00:17, Simon Riggs wrote:
> Also, we discussed that you would work on buffering the index inserts,
> which is where the main problem lies. The main heap is only a small
> part of the overhead if we have multiple indexes already built on a
> table - which is the use case that causes the most problem.

Sure, if you have indexes on the table already, then the overhead of
updating them is more significant. I am actually working on that too, I
will make a separate post about that.

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

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