juankarlos.openggd@xxxxxxxxx (Juan Pereira) writes: > Quite interesting! The main reason why we thought using a table per > truck was because concurrent load: if there are 100 trucks trying to > write in the same table, maybe the performance is worse than having > 100 tables, due to the fact that the table is blocked for other > queries while the writing process is running, isn't it? You're assuming something that is distinctly Not True of PostgreSQL. You do NOT require an exclusive lock on a table in order to write to it. For writes to tables to acquire an exclusive lock on the table happens to be a specific feature of the MySQL(tm) storage engine called MyISAM. -- let name="cbbrowne" and tld="linuxdatabases.info" in name ^ "@" ^ tld;; http://linuxfinances.info/info/spreadsheets.html Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine. - Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general