Re: COPY and indices?

Le mardi 13 mars 2012 à 10:48, Merlin Moncure a écrit :

> 2012/3/12 François Beausoleil <francois(at)teksol(dot)info (mailto:francois(at)teksol(dot)info)>:
> > Currently, I can sustain 30-40 writes per second on a Rackspace VPS. I know it's not the ideal solution, but that's what I'm working with. Following vmstat, the server is spending 30 to 40% of it's time in iowait. I don't have measurements as to what files are touched, and I'd welcome suggestions to measure the time PostgreSQL actually spends writing indices vs data.
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> you're almost certainly blocking on fsync. A real quick'n'dirty way
> to confirm this (although it wont be as fast as COPY) would be to wrap
> your inserts in a transaction. VMs tend to have really horrible
> storage latency which can hurt postgres performance. Another option
> would be to relax your commit policy (for example by flipping
> synchronous_commit) if that fits within your safety requirements.
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I already applied the tricks you have here: I have a transaction, and synchronous_commit is off. I also have checkpoint_segments set to 96, and 10 minutes.

I'll go with the COPY, since I can live with the batched requirements just fine.

Bye!
François