why autocommit mode is slow? - Mailing list pgsql-general

Hi,
this is maybe a stupid question, but I don't know how to explain to my coworkers why performing many inserts in autocommit mode is so much slower than making all of them in one transaction.

Why is that so slow?

regards
Szymon

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