On 2/6/07, Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 10:40, Merlin Moncure wrote: > On 2/6/07, Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 18:35, Karen Hill wrote: > > > I have a pl/pgsql function that is inserting 200,000 records for > > > testing purposes. What is the expected time frame for this operation > > > on a pc with 1/2 a gig of ram and a 7200 RPM disk? The processor is > > > a 2ghz cpu. So far I've been sitting here for about 2 million ms > > > waiting for it to complete, and I'm not sure how many inserts postgres > > > is doing per second. > > > > That really depends. Doing 200,000 inserts as individual transactions > > will be fairly slow. Since PostgreSQL generally runs in autocommit > > mode, this means that if you didn't expressly begin a transaction, you > > are in fact inserting each row as a transaction. i.e. this: > > I think OP is doing insertion inside a pl/pgsql loop...transaction is > implied here. Yeah, I noticed that about 10 seconds after hitting send... :)
actually, I get the stupid award also because RI check to unindexed column is not possible :) (this haunts deletes, not inserts). merlin
