Re: [PERFORM] INSERT query times

2011-07-10 Thread Tom Lane
sergio mayoral writes: > i am using libpq library and postgresql 8.4 for my linux application running > on ARM with 256 MB. I am just doing: > PQconnectdb(); > PQexec(INSERT INTO table1 ); (0.009661 sec.) > PQexec(INSERT INTO table1 ); (0.004208 sec.) > PQexec(INSERT INTO table2 ); (

Re: [PERFORM] INSERT query times

2011-07-10 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello a) look on COPY statement and COPY API protocol - it can be 100x faster than INSERTS http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/libpq-copy.html b) if you can't to use COPY use: * outer transaction - BEGIN, INSERT, INSERT ... COMMIT if this is possible * use a prepared statement http://www.p