Ron Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it expected that I'd be better off sending big > concatenated strings like > "insert into tbl (c1,c2) values (v1,v2);insert into tbl (c1,c2) values > (v3,v4);..." > instead of sending them one at a time?
It's certainly possible, if the network round trip from client to server is slow. I do not think offhand that there is any material advantage for the processing within the server (assuming you've wrapped the whole thing into one transaction in both cases); if anything, the concatenated-statement case is probably a bit worse inside the server because it will transiently eat more memory. But network latency or client-side per-command overhead could well cause the results you see. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org