On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 11:02:35AM -0400, Doug McNaught wrote:
> Holger Marzen <holger@marzen.de> writes:
>
> > ACK. On a given hardware I get about 150 inserts per second. Using a
> > begin/end transaction for a group of 100 inserts speeds it up to about
> > 450 inserts per second.
>
> COPY is even faster as there is less query parsing to be done, plus
> you get a transaction per COPY statement even without BEGIN/END.
Does anyone have any performance figures to hand on COPY vs BEGIN/INSERT/END,
on indexed or unindexed tables?
Cheers,
Steve
