From: Thomas Finneid <tfinneid@student.matnat.uio.no>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: insert vs select into performance
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:38:59 +0200
Message-ID: <469D1AD3.9030004@ifi.uio.no> (raw)
Hi
I was doing some testing on "insert" compared to "select into". I
inserted 100 000 rows (with 8 column values) into a table, which took 14
seconds, compared to a select into, which took 0.8 seconds.
(fyi, the inserts where batched, autocommit was turned off and it all
happend on the local machine)
Now I am wondering why the select into is that much faster?
Does the select into translate into a specially optimised function in c
that can cut corners which a insert can not do (e.g. lazy copying), or
is it some other reason?
The reason I am asking is that select into shows that a number of rows
can be inserted into a table quite a lot faster than one would think was
possible with ordinary sql. If that is the case, it means that if I
write an pl-pgsql insert function in C instead of sql, then I can have
my db perform order of magnitude faster.
Any comments?
regards
thomas
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