Ron Chmara wrote:
> On an extremely fast system, with Fsync off, this should take less than
> 30 seconds. On slower systems, or with fsync on, your performance will
> degrade greatly. I've seen 468 machines running at 2 inserts a second...
One thing I've noticed with loading lots of data using INSERTs is
that if you wrap the whole thing in a transaction, it goes heaps
faster (presumably because it only does one fsync, when the
transaction is complete).
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@cupid.suninternet.com>
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