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From Matthew Wakeling
Subject Re: INSERT times - same storage space but more fields -> much slower inserts
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Msg-id alpine.DEB.2.00.0904141700020.4053@aragorn.flymine.org
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In response to Re: INSERT times - same storage space but more fields -> much slower inserts  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Bacula should be using COPY for the batch data loads, so hopefully won't
> suffer too much from having the fields split out.  I think it would be
> interesting to try doing PQexecPrepared with binary-format data instead
> of using COPY though.  I'd be happy to help you implement a test setup
> for doing that, if you'd like.

You can always do binary-format COPY.

Matthew

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