Re: [SQL] Slow Inserts Again

From: jwieck(at)debis(dot)com (Jan Wieck)
To: fmorton(at)base2inc(dot)com (Frank Morton)
Cc: vadim(at)krs(dot)ru, pgsql-sql(at)hub(dot)org
Subject: Re: [SQL] Slow Inserts Again
Date: 1999-05-03 13:52:11
Message-ID: m10eJ8l-000EBPC@orion.SAPserv.Hamburg.dsh.de
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>
> >> This last attempt, I bracket each insert statement with
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >> "begin;" and "end;".
> >
> >Why _each_?
> >Enclose ALL statements by begin; & end; to insert ALL data
> >in SINGLE transaction:
>
> This was suggested by someone on the list so that all
> 150,000 inserts would not be treated as one large transaction.
>
> Like I said before, I have tried all suggestions without success.

For huge amounts of data I usually group the inserts into
chunks of 1000 or so and enclose the chunks by BEGIN/END.
Have you tried that already?

Jan

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