On 12/09/2007, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@xxxxxxx> wrote: > How (on average) large are the records you need to insert, and how > evenly spread across the 24 hour day do the inserts occur? There will be around 15,000 inserts in a day. Each insert will have several TEXT columns, so it is difficult to predict, but about 30,000 to 100,000 characters in each row. And yes, the inserts will be very consistently timed every day. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend