On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 20:38:33 +1100 (EST) Slavisa Garic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any help would be greatly appreciated even pointing me in the right > direction where to ask this question. By the way I designed the > database this way as my application that uses PGSQL a lot during the > execution so there was a huge need for fast SELECTs. Our experiments > are getting larger and larger every day so fast inserts would be good > as well. > First, you need to upgrade to 7.3.4, 7.4 is prefable if a dump/reload is not too bad. Standard set of questions: 1. Any foreign keys 2. are these inserts batched into transactions 3. CPU usage? 4. OS? 5. PG config? [shared_buffers, effective_cache_size, etc] 6. IO saturation? Also, try searching the archives. lots of juicy info there too. -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.jefftrout.com/ http://www.stuarthamm.net/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
