Re: INSERT times - same storage space but more fields -> much slower inserts

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Matthew Wakeling <matthew(at)flymine(dot)org>
Cc: Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: INSERT times - same storage space but more fields -> much slower inserts
Date: 2009-04-14 16:15:34
Message-ID: 20090414161534.GM8123@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Matthew Wakeling (matthew(at)flymine(dot)org) wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> Bacula should be using COPY for the batch data loads, so hopefully won't
>> suffer too much from having the fields split out. I think it would be
>> interesting to try doing PQexecPrepared with binary-format data instead
>> of using COPY though. I'd be happy to help you implement a test setup
>> for doing that, if you'd like.
>
> You can always do binary-format COPY.

I've never played with binary-format COPY actually. I'd be happy to
help test that too though.

Thanks,

Stephen

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