Michael (aka Worky), On 10/28/06 5:03 AM, "Michael Artz" <mlartz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > PG 8.1.3 x86_64. I installed it via a RH rpm for their "Web Services > Beta", or something like that. I know I'm a bit behind the times, but > getting stuff in (and out) of my isolated lab is a bit of a pain. > I'll compile up a 8.2 beta as well and see how that works out. I think 8.1 and 8.2 should be the same in this regard. Maybe it is just the PK *build* that slows it down, but I just tried some small scale experiments on my MacBook Pro laptop (which has the same disk performance as your server) and I get only a 10-15% slowdown from having a PK on an integer column. The 10-15% slowdown was on 8.1.5 MPP, so it used both CPUs to build the index and load at about 15 MB/s. Note that the primary key is the first column. Table "public.part" Column | Type | Modifiers ---------------+-----------------------+----------- p_partkey | integer | not null p_name | character varying(55) | not null p_mfgr | text | not null p_brand | text | not null p_type | character varying(25) | not null p_size | integer | not null p_container | text | not null p_retailprice | double precision | not null p_comment | character varying(23) | not null Indexes: "part_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (p_partkey) What is your schema for the table? - Luke