Chris <dmagick@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Francisco Reyes wrote: >> Doing my first write heavy database. >> What settings will help improve inserts? >> Only a handfull of connections, but each doing up to 30 inserts/second. > If you can, use copy instead: > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-copy.html Or at least try to do multiple inserts per transaction. Also, increasing checkpoint_segments and possibly wal_buffers helps a lot for write-intensive loads. Try to get the WAL onto a separate disk spindle if you can. (These things don't matter for SELECTs, but they do matter for writes.) regards, tom lane
