> > > Have you tried bundling all the INSERT statements into a single > > > transaction? > > > > Yes, the developer already made sure of that and I verified. I would verify that again, because fsync shouldn't make much of a difference in that circumstance. I might not do all 16 million in one transaction, but if you're doing 10 or 100 thousand at a time, it should be pretty fast. A language-level auto-commit remains to be disabled, perhaps? -- Alan
