On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 04:23 -0700, Sergio Mayoral wrote: > this must be something with the parser stage and since i am doing > every time the same queries, I would like to know if there is a way to > cache these queries in order to speed up the first INSERT. I doubt it's the parser. Seeing as it's around a couple ms at minimum, it's probably some kind of IO latency. You could see that by wrapping the statements in a big transaction (BEGIN/END block) -- I bet the inserts go very quickly and the final commit takes longer. Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance