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Subject: Re: Getting even more insert performance (250m+rows/day)
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Hi, Daniel,

Daniel J. Luke wrote:

> One big transaction every 5 minutes using 'COPY FROM' (instead of 
> inserts).

Are you using "COPY table FROM '/path/to/file'", having the file sitting
on the server, or "COPY table FROM STDIN" or psql "/copy", having the
file sitting on the client?