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From: Leonardo Francalanci <m_lists@yahoo.it>
To: Andrey Vorobiev <andrey.o.vorobiev@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Performance degradation of inserts when database size grows
Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 07:38:20 +0100 (BST)
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>1. How does database size affect insert performance?
>2. Why does number of written buffers increase when database size grows?

It might be related to indexes. Indexes size affect insert performance.

>3. How can I further analyze this problem?


Try without indexes?



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