Re: Performance penalty for remote access of postgresql (8.1.3)? any experiance?

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer(at)bfk(dot)de>
To: <guoping(dot)zhang(at)nec(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Guoping Zhang (E-mail)" <guopingz(at)nstc(dot)nec(dot)com(dot)au>
Subject: Re: Performance penalty for remote access of postgresql (8.1.3)? any experiance?
Date: 2006-07-19 06:30:14
Message-ID: 82irlu2jk9.fsf@mid.bfk.de
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* Guoping Zhang:

> a) Anyone has the similar experience? How do you deal with it?
> b) Why TCP stack imposes such big delay? any tuning point I shall do?

If you use INSERT, you'll incur a network round-trip delay for each
record. Try using COPY FROM instead, possibly to a temporary table if
you need more complex calculations. If you do this, there won't be a
huge difference between local and remote access as long as the
bandwidth is sufficient.

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