http://blog.xcski.com/2008/04/13/back-to-the-drawing-board Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:44:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://blog.xcski.com/2008/04/13/back-to-the-drawing-board#comment-85620 Paul Ramsey Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:54:47 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/?p=1319#comment-85620 (a) Ensure you are not doing your load one transactional insert at a time. Wrap 1000 inserts in a transaction block. Even better, do your load with a COPY statement or at least using prepared statements. (b) Tune your postgresql.conf file, increase your WAL buffers and other parameters off the crappy default values. (c) If you are doing a bulk load set fsync off at the start and on at the end. It's dangerous, but if it's a bulk load you don't mind re-starting the load in the unlikely event your server crashes midway through. (a) Ensure you are not doing your load one transactional insert at a time. Wrap 1000 inserts in a transaction block. Even better, do your load with a COPY statement or at least using prepared statements.
(b) Tune your postgresql.conf file, increase your WAL buffers and other parameters off the crappy default values.
(c) If you are doing a bulk load set fsync off at the start and on at the end. It’s dangerous, but if it’s a bulk load you don’t mind re-starting the load in the unlikely event your server crashes midway through.

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