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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:21:15 +0200
From: Markus Schaber <schabi@logix-tt.com>
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To: Greg Quinn <greg@officium.co.za>
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Subject: Re: Slow performance on Windows .NET and OleDb
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Hi, Greg,

Greg Quinn wrote:
>>> I populate 3000 records into the table to test PostGreSql's speed.
>>> It takes about 3-4 seconds.
>> When you do the population, is it via inserts or copy?
> Via insert

Are those inserts encapsulated into a single transaction? If not, that's
the reason why it's so slow, every transaction sync()s through to the disk.

Markus

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