On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, [iso-8859-15] Hervé Piedvache wrote: > Hi, > > I have a database with one table with about 22 millions records. > I have a script every day wich insert about 200 000 records ... > Sometime my script takes 4 hours to insert the data, sometime 1 hour. Are you wrapping all your inserts into one or several large transactions? This can make inserting data MUCH faster in postgresql. Do you have fk/pk relationships? If so, are they of the same types? I wouldn't worry about the vacuum / analyze numbers being a little off. A small variance of a few percent is no biggie, it's when things are off by factors that the planner gets confused and makes bad decisions. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly