On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 09:08:28PM -0500, John Holland wrote:
> I've been lurking on this list for a little while. I have just done a
> little tinkering with Postgres 6.4.2, comparing it to Oracle and mySQL on
> Linux. It would appear that just doing a lot of inserts (ie 40000) in a
> loop is enormously slower in Postgres in two ways that I tried it.
> One - using a loop in Java that makes a JDBC call to insert.
> Two- using plpgsql as a comparision to PL/SQL.
Did you use the '-F' option? I tried somethings similar from C and found
similar results when calling fsync() after each write. Once I used -F it was
way faster and comparable to Oracle.
> Perhaps these are bad techniques and a C based proc would do better?
Feel free to try src/interfaces/ecpg/test/perftest.c
Michael
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