On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello all! >> SNIP >>> So I would conclude that relational stores will not make it for >>> this use case... >> >> I was wondering you guys are having to do all individual inserts or if >> you can batch some number together into a transaction. Being able to >> put > 1 into a single transaction is a huge win for pgsql. > > I'm aware of the performance issues between 1 insert vs x batched > inserts in one operation / transaction. That is why in the case of > Postgres I am using COPY <table> FROM STDIN, and using 5k batches... > (I've tried even 10k, 15k, 25k, 50k, 500k, 1m inserts / batch and no > improvement...)
I've had exactly the same experience with Postgres during an attempt to use it as a store for large-scale incoming streams of data at a rate very comparable to what you're looking at (~100k/sec). We eventually just ended up rolling our own solution. -- - David T. Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
