Robert Ayrapetyan <robert.ayrapetyan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> What timings do you get for the insert statements if you run the >> following in your environment? >> Here's what I get: >> >> Time: 1629.141 ms >> Time: 1638.060 ms >> Time: 1711.833 ms >> >> Time: 4151.953 ms >> Time: 4602.679 ms >> Time: 5107.259 ms >> >> Time: 4654.060 ms >> Time: 5158.157 ms >> Time: 5101.110 ms > Timings for your test: > [no index] > Time: 2789.607 ms > Time: 2959.679 ms > Time: 3651.206 ms > [int index] > Time: 5671.883 ms > Time: 5668.894 ms > Time: 6530.010 ms > [bigint index] > Time: 8093.276 ms > Time: 5988.694 ms > Time: 5702.236 ms > [regarding tests which do show the problem] > tried same with 2 columns (bigint and int) - it didn't produced > such effect probably because data volume has critical effect. Based on what you're showing, this is almost certainly just a matter of pushing your volume of active data above the threshold of what your cache holds, forcing it to do disk access rather than RAM access for a significant portion of the reads. -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance