You need to track down your limited resource. IO, CPU, or network. I would say it’s unlikely to be CPU, but you never know. Look at the activities on each server and see what resource is maxed out. My guess is IO, but you could also have your network choked. Sent from my iPad > On Aug 14, 2018, at 02:12, Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Mariel Cherkassky wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm using postgresql v10.4. I have a local partitioned table (by range - data, every day has its own table). >> I'm using the oracle_fdw extension to bring data from the oracle partitioned table into my local postgresql >> (insert into local select * from remote_oracle). Currently, I dont have any indexes on the postgresql`s table. >> It takes me 10 hours to copy 200G over the network and it is very slow. >> Any recommandations what can I change or improve ? > > Hard to say anything with so little data. > > You could try a bigger value for the "prefetch" option. > > One known reason for slow performance is if there are LOBs in the Oracle table. > > You could parallelize processing by running several such INSERTs in > parallel, perhaps one per partition, and inserting directly into > the partitions. > > Yours, > Laurenz Albe > -- > Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com >