Re: slow speeds after 2 million rows inserted - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Nikola Milutinovic
Subject Re: slow speeds after 2 million rows inserted
Date
Msg-id 20061229195012.32633.qmail@web58701.mail.re1.yahoo.com
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In response to slow speeds after 2 million rows inserted  (James Neff <jneff@tethyshealth.com>)
List pgsql-general
> The fastest way will be copy.
> The second fastest will be multi value inserts in batches.. eg.;
>
> INSERT INTO data_archive values () () () (I don't knwo what the max is)
>
> but commit every 1000 inserts or so.

Is this some empirical value? Can someone give heuristics as to how to calculate the optimal number of transactions
afterwhich to commit? Or at least guidelines. 

Nix.




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