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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
To: fkater\@googlemail.com <fkater@googlemail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Inserting 8MB bytea: just 25% of disk perf used?
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:14:46 +0000
Message-ID: <82aawgoh09.fsf@mid.bfk.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100114142903.GB2973@comppasch2>
References: <20100114142903.GB2973@comppasch2>

> Do you have any further idea why 16MB/s seems to be the limit here?

BYTEA deserialization is very slow, and this could be a factor here.
Have you checked that you are in fact I/O bound?

You can speed things up by sending the data in binary, by passing
approriate parameters to PQexecParams().

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Florian Weimer                <fweimer@bfk.de>
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