Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... Immediately > after a postmaster restart, the first insert or two take about 1.5 > minutes (undoubtedly this could be improved, but it isn't the main > issue). However by the second or third insert, the time increases to 7 - > 9 minutes. Restarting the postmaster causes the cycle to repeat, i.e. > the first one or two inserts are back to the 1.5 minute range.
Just to be clear on this: you have to restart the postmaster to bring the time back down? Simply starting a fresh backend session doesn't do it? Are you using particularly large values for shared_buffers or any of the other resource parameters? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings