Re: Savepoints in transactions for speed?

Commitmarks are written to disk after each transaction. So transactionsize has impact on performance.

Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:18:20 -0600
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Savepoints in transactions for speed?
From: mike(dot)blackwell(at)rrd(dot)com
To: klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com
CC: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

Updates, are faster if batched, if your business logic allows it,

because it creates less bloat and creates more opportunities for with

HOT updates. I don't think it applies to inserts, though, and I

haven't heard it either.

Ah. That must have been what I'd half-remembered. Thanks for the clarification.
Mike