On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 01:56:58PM +0000, Frits Jalvingh 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. > > Any other tips would be welcome! > > Regards, > > Frits Hi Frits, Here is an article that is still valid: https://www.depesz.com/2007/07/05/how-to-insert-data-to-database-as-fast-as-possible/ Regards, Ken -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
