Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDAC72E0040 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:59:52 -0300 (ADT) Received: from developer.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 57525-01 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:59:45 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mailrelay.edis.at (mailrelay.edis.at [81.223.48.5]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD0672E0032 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:59:48 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (91.83.0.221.pool.invitel.hu [::ffff:91.83.0.221]) (AUTH: CRAM-MD5 zb@cybertec.at, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by mailrelay.edis.at with esmtp; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:56:06 +0200 id 000F1C71.484FA136.000010F2 Message-ID: <484FA134.7030807@cybertec.at> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:56:04 +0200 From: Zoltan Boszormenyi User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PostgreSQL Performance CC: Hans-Juergen Schoenig Subject: Scalability question X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200806/44 X-Sequence-Number: 30394 Hi, I got a question about scalability in high volume insert situation where the table has a primary key and several non-unique indexes on other columns of the table. How does PostgreSQL behave in terms of scalability? The high volume of inserts comes from multiple transactions. Best regards, Zoltán Böszörményi -- ---------------------------------- Zoltán Böszörményi Cybertec Schönig & Schönig GmbH http://www.postgresql.at/