Re: [PERFORM] slow insert into very large table

2005-12-01 Thread Tom Lane
Wolfgang Gehner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is with PostgreSQL 8.0 final for WindowsXP on a Pentium 1.86 GHz, > 1GB Memory. HD is fast IDE. Try something more recent, like 8.0.3 or 8.0.4. IIRC we had some performance issues in 8.0.0 with tables that grew from zero to large size during a s

Re: [PERFORM] slow insert into very large table

2005-12-01 Thread Andreas Pflug
Wolfgang Gehner wrote: Hi there, I need a simple but large table with several million records. I do batch inserts with JDBC. After the first million or so records, the inserts degrade to become VERY slow (like 8 minutes vs initially 20 secondes). The table has no indices except PK while I do

[PERFORM] slow insert into very large table

2005-12-01 Thread Wolfgang Gehner
Hi there, I need a simple but large table with several million records. I do batch inserts with JDBC. After the first million or so records, the inserts degrade to become VERY slow (like 8 minutes vs initially 20 secondes). The table has no indices except PK while I do the inserts. This is w