Frits Jalvingh wrote: > So, I am still very interested in getting normal inserts faster, because > that will gain speed for all work.. If Oracle can do it, and Postgres is > able to insert fast with copy- where lies the bottleneck with the insert > command? There seems to be quite a performance hit with the JDBC driver > itself (as the stored procedure is a lot faster), so I can look into that. > But even after that there is quite a gap.. Did you try inserting multiple tuples in one command? Something like INSERT INTO .. VALUES ('col1', 'col2'), ('col1', 'col2'), ('col1', 'col2') It's supposed to be faster than single-row inserts, though I don't know by how much. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance