RE: Berkeley DB...

From: Andreas Zeugswetter <andreas(dot)zeugswetter(at)telecom(dot)at>
To: "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: RE: Berkeley DB...
Date: 2000-05-28 07:30:38
Message-ID: 00052809330604.00145@zeus
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On Fri, 26 May 2000, Mikheev, Vadim wrote:
> > > Well, I've dropped index but INSERTs still take 70 sec and
> > > COPY just 1sec -:(((
> >
> > Well, for those that have fsync turned off we could actually
> > avoid most of the writes, could'nt we ? Just leave the page
> > marked dirty. We would only need to write each new page once.
> > The problem as I see it is, that we don't have a good place
> > where the writes would actually be done. Now they are obviously
> > done after each insert.
>
> I've run test without fsync and with all inserts in *single*
> transaction - there should be no write after each insert...

Yes, but if you don't do the inserts in one big transaction
and don't issue transaction statements ( no begin or commit )
then you get the behavior I described.

Andreas

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