Re: insertion becoming slow

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: "surabhi(dot)ahuja" <surabhi(dot)ahuja(at)iiitb(dot)ac(dot)in>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: insertion becoming slow
Date: 2005-09-29 20:54:52
Message-ID: 20050929205452.GO30974@pervasive.com
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On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 03:09:43PM +0530, surabhi.ahuja wrote:
> is it some logging information that is being written into some file at the end of some transactions
> (each intsall is one transaction for me)
>
> the data directory is containing these folders..
>
> base/ pg_clog/ pg_ident.conf pg_subtrans/ PG_VERSION postgresql.conf postmaster.pid
> global/ pg_hba.conf pg_log/ pg_tblspc/ pg_xlog/ postmaster.opts
>
> it seems that some info is going into pg_xlog,
> is that taking time ....?

Read up on the WAL:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/wal.html
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