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

From: Matthew Wakeling <matthew(at)flymine(dot)org>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
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 16:01:08
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.00.0904141700020.4053@aragorn.flymine.org
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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.

Matthew

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