concurrent inserts into two separate tables are very slow - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Sergei Shelukhin
Subject concurrent inserts into two separate tables are very slow
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Responses Re: concurrent inserts into two separate tables are very slow  ("Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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Hi. Running postgres 8.2 on debian.
I've noticed that concurrent inserts (archiving) of large batches data
into two completely unrelated tables are many times slower than the
same inserts done in sequence.
Is there any way to speed them up apart from buying faster HDs/
changing RAID configuration?

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