However the harddisk (sata) could write 43 MB/s in the worst
case! Why is write performance limited to 16 MB/s?
Some more hints what I do:
I use PQexecParams() and the INSERT ... $001 notation to NOT
create a real escapted string from the data additionally but
use a pointer to the 8MB data buffer.
I altered the binary column to STORAGE EXTERNAL.
Some experiments with postgresql.conf (fsync off,
shared_buffers=1000MB, checkpoint_segments=256) did not
change the 50s- much (somtimes 60s sometimes a little less).
4 Core CPU 3 Ghz, WinXP, 1 TB SATA disk.
Big CPU and slow disk...
You should add another disk just for the WAL -- disks are pretty cheap
these days.
Writing the WAL on a second disk is the first thing to do on a
configuration like yours, if you are limited by writes.
It also reduces the fsync lag a lot since the disk is only doing WAL.
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