> So you are not saying that INSERT on temp tables is any slower than
> ordinary tables, just that you think there is a way to make temp tables
> faster.
>
> My guess is that WAL is going to make INSERT's poor performance a
> non-issue.
I do not think that WAL in its first version can speed anything up,
it will rather slow things down.
I think that insert performance should be somewhere near "\copy"
performance which is not so bad now.
Thus it probably could be improved for both regular and temp tables.
Andreas
PS: I am off for a week now