Yes, the developer already made sure of that and I verified.
On 9/5/08 11:10 AM, "Sam Mason" <sam(at)samason(dot)me(dot)uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 09:16:41AM -0400, Aaron Burnett wrote:
>> For an upcoming release there is a 16 million row insert that on our test
>> cluster takes about 2.5 hours to complete with all indices dropped
>> beforehand.
>>
>> If I turn off fsync, it completes in under 10 minutes.
>
> Have you tried bundling all the INSERT statements into a single
> transaction? If you haven't then PG will run each statement in its own
> transaction and then commit each INSERT statement to disk separately,
> incurring large overheads.
>
>
> Sam