Turning off transactions completely. - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Arsalan Zaidi
Subject Turning off transactions completely.
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Msg-id 009501c195c6$3673b360$4301a8c0@directi.com
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Responses Re: Turning off transactions completely.  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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Hi.

I'm writing a very specialised app which has absolutely NO need for
transactions. However, I have to milk every drop of performance out of it
cause I'm performing some fairly complex queries on tens of millions of
rows.

Is there any way I can completely avoid the overhead of the implicit
transaction per SQL statement? Is there some switch or some (fairly easy)
editting that can be done to the code? My transaction log files often reach
800 MB in size and I'd like to avoid the overhead if at all possible...

Thanks in advance.

--Arsalan.



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