> > Well, I've dropped index but INSERTs still take 70 sec and
> > COPY just 1sec -:(((
>
> Well, for those that have fsync turned off we could actually
> avoid most of the writes, could'nt we ? Just leave the page
> marked dirty. We would only need to write each new page once.
> The problem as I see it is, that we don't have a good place
> where the writes would actually be done. Now they are obviously
> done after each insert.
I've run test without fsync and with all inserts in *single*
transaction - there should be no write after each insert...
Vadim