On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > I was just testing the threaded ecpg, and ran some performance tests.
> > > Without using threads, I am seeing 100,000 inserts of a single word into
> > > a simple table take 12 seconds:
> > >   CREATE TABLE test_thread(message TEXT);
> > > giving me 8333 inserts per second.  That seems very high.
> >
> > Single transaction, or one transaction per INSERT?
>
> This is ecpg, and I didn't have AUTOCOMMIT on, so it was a single
> transaction.  I had forgotten that.
>
> Also, I was wrong in my computations.  It is 4166 inserts per second,
> not 8333.  Sorry.
>
> I am now seeing more reasonable numbers:
>
>       one INSERT per transaction, fsync true   934
>       one INSERT per transaction, fsync false 1818
>       one INSERT per transaction, fsync true  4166

Shouldn't 1 and 3 be about the same though?  If both are 'one INSERT per
transaction with fsync true', how come such a massive difference in #s?


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