am Tue, dem 03.04.2007, um 7:19:15 -0700 mailte rkmr.em@xxxxxxxxx folgendes: > I need to do like 1000 inserts periodically from a web app. Is it better to do > 1000 inserts or 1 insert with the all 1000 rows? Is using copy command faster > than inserts? You can do the massive Inserts within one transaktion, but COPY is much faster than many Inserts. The multi-line Insert is a new feature since 8.2. I prefer COPY. Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG-ID: 0x3FFF606C, privat 0x7F4584DA http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net