Tomas,
You are correct. I was assuming that each insert was issued as an implicit transaction, without the benefit of an explicit BEGIN/COMMIT batching many of them together, as I've seen countless times in tight loops trying to pose as a batch insert.
Bob
From: Tomas Vondra <tv@xxxxxxxx>
To: pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: database slowdown while a lot of inserts occur
On 29.3.2012 21:27, Bob Lunney wrote:
> Lance,
>
> May small inserts cause frequent fsyncs. Is there any way those small
> inserts can be batched into some larger sets of inserts that use copy to
> perform the load?
Not necessarily - fsync happens at COMMIT time, not when the INSERT is
performed (unless each INSERT stands on it's own).
Tomas
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