On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 03:45:17PM -0400, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > Things I've already done that have made a big difference: > - modified postgresql.conf shared_buffers value > - converted to COPY from individual insert statements > - changed BLCKSZ to 32768 Have you tried fiddling with the checkpointing settings? Check your logs -- if you get a warning about checkpoints being too close together, that should give you quite some boost. Apart from that, you should have quite a bit to go on -- somebody on this list reported 2 billion rows/day earlier, but it might have been on beefier hardware, of course. :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/