On Nov 9, 2007 12:53 PM, Waller, David <Waller_D@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have an application that I am porting from MySQL to PostgreSQL and I am > working on the import Perl script that process the data. > > The data is web log data and each line has a variable amount of the fields > (mostly because of cookies) so I am using a lot of insert statements. > > In MySQL I go through a file in about 2 minutes and it is taking about 30 in > PG. I have removed all but the primary key index and have done a BEGIN and > COMMIT after turning off AUTOCOMMIT. can you give us a better idea of the # records/sec we are talking about here? mysql and pg are usually pretty close in insert performance. maybe there is something fishy going on. merlin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq