Re: long transaction

From: "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Sabin Coanda" <sabin(dot)coanda(at)deuromedia(dot)ro>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: long transaction
Date: 2008-08-11 19:03:10
Message-ID: b42b73150808111203l14df2d2dicd4350f04d64e838@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 2:53 AM, Sabin Coanda
<sabin(dot)coanda(at)deuromedia(dot)ro> wrote:
> No, I cannot use VACUUM inside the transaction, and it seems this is the
> problem, although autovacuum is set.
>
> However I checked the following scenario to find a solution. I call the
> 30000 statements without transaction. The performance it not changed. But
> when I add VACUUM command after each 20 statement set, I got the linear
> performance that I want. Unfortunatelly this is not possible inside a
> transaction.
>
> Do you know how could I solve my problem, keeping the 30000 statements
> inside a single transaction ?

long running transactions can be evil. is there a reason why this has
to run in a single transaction?

merlin

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