You should seriously consider upgrading to 7.4.6 as server performance has increased; in some cases significantly.
If that is not an option, certainly tuning the shared buffers, and effective cache settings would be advisable.
dave
Andreas Åkre Solberg wrote:
On Nov 13, 2004, at 12:26, vivek singh wrote:
But still, with large volume of data in database the insert operation becomes very slow (ie. to insert 100 records in 5 tables, it takes nearly 3minutes).
What are the performance when you use COPY FROM instead of INSERT ? And have you tested the performance with fsync on and off.
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