Re: Slow insert - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Steinar H. Gunderson
Subject Re: Slow insert
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Msg-id 20041211014528.GA16264@uio.no
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In response to Slow insert  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
List pgsql-performance
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:42:19AM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> Why would an INSERT ever be really slow?  This is what I see a lot of in
> our site logs:
>
> Dec  5 15:57:48 marshall postgres[19599]: [3-1] LOG:  duration:
> 13265.492 ms  statement: INSERT INTO users_sessions (sid, cobrand_id,
> uid) VALUES ('145982ac39e1d09fec99cc8a606155e7', '1', '0')
>
> 13 seconds to insert a single row!

Do you have a foreign key or other check which could be really slow?

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