Is using a ramdisk in situations like this entirely ill-advised then?
When data integrity isn't a huge issue and you really need good write
performance it seems like it wouldn't hurt too much. Unless I am
missing something?
On 20 May 2005, at 02:45, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
I'm doing the writes individually. Is there a better way?
Combining them all into a transaction or something?
Use COPY of course :)
Or at worst bundle 1000 inserts at a time in a transation...
And if you seriously do not care about your data at all, set fsync
= off in you postgresql.conf for a mega speedup.
Chris
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