You are correct. I was assuming that each insert was issued as an implicit transaction, without the benefit of an explicit BEGIN/COMMIT batching many of them together, as I've seen countless times in tight loops trying to pose as a batch insert.
Bob
From: Tomas Vondra <tv@fuzzy.cz> To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 8:11 PM Subject: Re: [PERFORM] database slowdown while a lot of inserts occur
On 29.3.2012 21:27, Bob Lunney wrote: > Lance, > > May small inserts cause frequent fsyncs. Is there any way those small > inserts can be batched into some larger sets of inserts that use copy to > perform the load?
Not necessarily - fsync happens at COMMIT time, not when the INSERT is performed (unless each INSERT stands on it's own).
Tomas
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