Re: realtime data inserts

The copy from method (PQputline) allows me to achieve around 1000 inserts
per second.

On Sat, 10 May 2003, Jim C. Nasby wrote:

> Are you binding your insert? IE:
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> prepare statement INSERT INTO blah VALUES (?, ?, ?);
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> execute statement (a, b, c)
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> Instead of just "INSERT INTO blah VALUES(a, b, c)"
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> On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 11:25:16AM -0400, Adam Siegel wrote:
> > 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. I am storing the binary data
> > in a bytea. I am using the libpq conversion function. Not sure if that is
> > slowing me down. But I think it is the insert not the conversion.
> >
> > Any thoughts on how to achive this goal?
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