Re: Very long SQL strings

From: Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer(at)spamfence(dot)net>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Very long SQL strings
Date: 2007-06-21 18:48:33
Message-ID: 20070621184833.GA10814@KanotixBox
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Steven Flatt <steven(dot)flatt(at)gmail(dot)com> schrieb:
> For example, on a toy table with two columns, I noticed about a 20% increase
> when bulking together 1000 tuples in one INSERT statement as opposed to doing
> 1000 individual INSERTS. Would this be the same for 10000? 100000? Does it
> depend on the width of the tuples or the data types?

I guess you can obtain the same if you pack all INSERTs into one
transaction.

And, faster than INSERT: COPY.

Andreas
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