On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 11:00, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Adam Siegel" <adam(at)sycamorehq(dot)com> writes:
> > I have realtime data flowing at a rate of 500, 512 byte packets per second.
> > I want to log the info in a database table with two other columns, one for a
> > timestamp and one for a name of the packet. The max rate I can achieve is
> > 350 inserts per second on a sun blade 2000. The inserts are grouped in a
> > transaction and I commit every 1200 records.
>
> Have you thought about using COPY?
Generate a temporary file, and then system("COPY /tmp/foobar ...") ?
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