On Thursday August 11 2005 12:36 pm, Ed L. wrote: > On Wednesday August 10 2005 6:03 pm, Michael Fuhr wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 05:02:46PM -0600, Ed L. wrote: > > > I have two identical servers giving abysmal INSERT > > > performance in pgsql 7.3.4, 7.4.8, and 8.1devel under no > > > load or I/O contention at all (no dumps, no vacuums, no > > > apps, etc). Any suggested investigations appreciated... > > > > Have you done any tests that eliminate the client code and > > client-server communcation? Something like the following: > > > > Michael, you seem to have nailed it. The local inserts (via > Unix domain sockets?) that were running at 6 QPS ran at 6800 > to 41000 QPS in a PL/pgSQL function. Here's another part of the riddle. The query durations for the individual inserts as logged in the server log are ranging 100ms-500ms per insert when connecting via DBI/DBD::Pg from localhost. Inside pl/pgsql, they're clearly averaging faster than 1ms per insert. I would have thought those times were independent of the client communication layers...? Ed ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend