Re: Postgres insert performance and storage requirement compared to Oracle

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Mladen Gogala <mladen(dot)gogala(at)vmsinfo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres insert performance and storage requirement compared to Oracle
Date: 2010-10-26 22:50:37
Message-ID: AANLkTimf9Nj8A+Spiu9q3suvZ+h71CHXRFTXFo_5aBYj@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Mladen Gogala
<mladen(dot)gogala(at)vmsinfo(dot)com> wrote:
> The table is created with "on commit obliterate rows" option which means
> that there is no need to do "truncate". The "truncate" command is a heavy
> artillery. Truncating a temporary table is like shooting ducks in a duck
> pond, with a howitzer.

This is just not true. ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS simply arranges for a
TRUNCATE to happen immediately before each commit. See
PreCommit_on_commit_actions() in tablecmds.c.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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