On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 7:56 AM, Frits Jalvingh <jal@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Kenneth, Andreas, > > Thanks for your tips! > > I increased shared_buffers to 8GB but it has no measurable effect at all. I > think that is logical: shared buffers are important for querying but not for > inserting; for that the speed to write to disk seems most important- no big > reason to cache the data if the commit requires a full write anyway. > I also changed the code to do only one commit; this also has no effect I can > see. > > It is true that Oracle had more memory assigned to it (1.5G), but unlike > Postgres (which is completely on a fast SSD) Oracle runs on slower disk > (ZFS).. > > I will try copy, but I first need to investigate how to use it- its > interface seems odd to say the least ;) I'll report back on that once done. I you want an example of copy, just pg_dump a table: pg_dump -d smarlowe -t test (SNIP) COPY test (a, b) FROM stdin; 1 abc 2 xyz \. (SNIP) -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
