why autocommit mode is slow?

From: Szymon Guz <mabewlun(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: why autocommit mode is slow?
Date: 2011-04-07 20:59:50
Message-ID: BANLkTinvQ4z8pE95e-RVnBXngvORss7zpw@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,
this is maybe a stupid question, but I don't know how to explain to my
coworkers why performing many inserts in autocommit mode is so much slower
than making all of them in one transaction.

Why is that so slow?

regards
Szymon

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