Re: Optimizing for writes. Data integrity not critical - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: Optimizing for writes. Data integrity not critical
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Msg-id 428D4146.6000203@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Optimizing for writes. Data integrity not critical  (Steve Bergman <steve@rueb.com>)
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> I'm doing the writes individually.  Is there a better way?  Combining
> them all into a transaction or something?

Use COPY of course :)

Or at worst bundle 1000 inserts at a time in a transation...

And if you seriously do not care about your data at all, set fsync = off
  in you postgresql.conf for a mega speedup.

Chris

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