Re: Performance UPDATE/INSERT - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Thomas Pundt
Subject Re: Performance UPDATE/INSERT
Date
Msg-id 200604111130.03182.mlists@rp-online.de
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In response to Performance UPDATE/INSERT  ("MG" <pgsql-general@carladata.de>)
List pgsql-general
Hi,

On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:08, MG wrote:
| I have about 100 000 records, which need about 30 minutes to write them
| with single INSERTs into PostgreSQL. If I go through these 100 000 records
| and make an UPDATE on each record, it takes 1 hour.
|
| Can anyone tell me, about his experience of the performance of INSERT and
| UPDATE.

how about using COPY for the import? Or at least putting the INSERTs into
a transaction using BEGIN and COMMIT? I would do the same with the UPDATEs:
put it into a transaction frame.

Ciao,
Thomas

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