Hi Babu,
No, I did not, and the effect is quite great:
Inserted 1000000 rows in 2535 milliseconds, 394477.3175542406 rows per second
Inserted 1000000 rows in 2553 milliseconds, 391696.0438699569 rows per second
compared to (without your parameter):
Inserted 1000000 rows in 7643 milliseconds, 130838.67591259976 rows per second
That is quite an increase!! Thanks a lot for the tip!!
For those keeping score: we're now at 77% of Oracle's performance- without copy ;)