Re: Insert slow down on empty database

From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Insert slow down on empty database
Date: 2005-06-04 01:20:08
Message-ID: m3br6msyt3.fsf@knuth.cbbrowne.com
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In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, "Morgan" <mkita(at)verseon(dot)com> transmitted:
> At first I was using straight insert statments, and although they
> were a bit slower than the prepared statments(after the restablished
> connection) they never ran into this problem with the database being
> initially empty. I only changed to the prepared statements because
> it was suggested in the documentation for advice on bulk data loads
> =).

I remember encountering this with Oracle, and the answer being "do
some loading 'til it slows down, then update statistics and restart."

I don't know that there's an obvious alternative outside of perhaps
some variation on pg_autovacuum...
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