Re: degradation in performance

6000 inserts, each in its own transaction, will be very long.
Group your inserts in one transaction and it'll be faster (maybe 1-2
minutes).
Have your program generate a tab-delimited text file and load it with
COPY, you should be down to a few seconds.

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:27:43 +0200, Alain Reymond <alain(dot)reymond(at)ceia(dot)com>
wrote:

> Good afternoon,
>
> I created a database with Postgres 7.3.4 under Linux RedHat 7.3 on a
> Dell PowerEdge server.
>
> One of the table is
> resultats(numbil, numpara, mesure, deviation)
> with an index on numbil.
>
> Each select on numbil returns up to 60 rows (that means 60 rows for
> one numbil with 60 different numpara) for example
> (200000,1,500,3.5)
> (200000,2,852,4.2)
> (200000,12,325,2.8)
> (200001,1,750,1.5)
> (200001,2,325,-1.5)
> (200001,8,328,1.2)
> etc..
>
> This table contains now more than 6.500.000 rows and grows from
> 6000 rows a day. I have approximatively 1.250.000 rows a year. So I
> have 5 years of data online.
> Now, an insertion of 6000 lasts very loooong, up to one hour...
> I tried to insert 100.000 yesterday evening and it was not done in 8
> hours.
>
> Do you have any idea how I can improve speed - apart from splitting
> the table every 2 or 3 years which is the the aim of a database!
>
> I thank you for your suggestions.
>
> Regards.
>
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