From: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@Norway.EU.net>
To: Steven Bradley <sbradley@llnl.gov>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Performance
Date: 24 Jun 1999 08:23:08 +0200
Message-ID: <86g13i86cz.fsf@athene.i.eunet.no> (raw)
References: <3.0.5.32.19990623150509.0092e990@poptop.llnl.gov>
Steven Bradley <sbradley@llnl.gov> writes:
> I have simplified the problem down to a single (non-indexed) table with
> about a half-dozen columns (int4, timestamp, varchar, etc.) I wrote a
> quick and dirty C program which uses the libpq interface to INSERT records
> into the table in real-time. The best performance I could achieve was on
> the order of 15 inserts per second. What I need is something much closer
> to 100 inserts per second.
I actually did pretty much the same thing just as a quick test of
version 6.5 the other day. On my system (PostgreSQL 6.5 under NetBSD
1.4 on a 350MHz Pentium II with 128MB of RAM, and fast SCSI disks
behind an Adaptec 2940 on a PCI bus), I got about 25 inserts per
second. I then wrapped the whole series of inserts in a BEGIN/END
block. This increased the speed to about 1000 inserts per second.
Yup. A thousand. That's 40 times the speed. Pretty cool. :-)
For the actual application I have in mind, I'll be dropping BEGIN and
END statements into the command stream based on insert rate, I think.
-tih
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