Tom Lane writes:
Or at least try to do multiple inserts per transaction.
Will see if the program has an option like that.
Also, increasing checkpoint_segments and possibly wal_buffers helps a
Will try those.
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.)
This particular server is pretty much what I inherited for now for this project.and its Raid 5. There is a new server I am setting up soon... 8 disks which we are planning to setup
6 disks in RAID 10 2 Hot spares In RAID 10 would it matter that WALL is in the same RAID set? Would it be better: 4 disks in RAID10 Data 2 disks RAID 1 WALL 2 hot spares All in the same RAID controller