On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Bob Lunney <bob_lun...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> John, > > Sorry to hear you're struggling with such underpowered hardware. ;-) A > little more information would be helpful, though: > > 1. What version of PG are you running? > 2. What are the constraints on the child tables? > 3. How many rows does each copy insert? > 4. Are these wrapped in transactions? > 5. are the child tables created at the same time the copies are taking > place? In the same transaction? > 6. Are the indexes in place on the child table(s) when the copies are > running? Do they have to be to validate the data? > 7. What are the configuration settings for the database? (Just the ones > changed from the default, please.) > 8. Which file system are you running for the database files? Mount > options? > 9. Are the WAL files on the same file system? > > 10. are you copying directly into the child tables or into the parent and then redirecting to child tables via a trigger?