From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
Subject: Re: postgresql multiple insert slow
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 10:03:53 -0500
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Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when mich@freebsdcluster.org ("Michael L. Hostbaek") would write:
> I runs fine - and I get no errors - but it takes almost 25 minutes to
> complete.. I tried running the script while just grabbing the rows from
> the oracle database and writing to a text file - and then it only takes
> a couple of minutes .. So it must be the INSERT command that chokes - is
> there a better way to do it ? 
>
> Any advise much appreciated.

The problem here is that each insert implicitly sets up a transaction
BEGIN and COMMIT.

If you were to wrap the loop with a BEGIN at the start and a COMMIT at
the end, you would likely find it would complete much, much faster.
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