On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 10:59:50PM +0200, Szymon Guz wrote: > Hi, > this is maybe a stupid question, but I don't know how to explain to my > coworkers why performing many inserts in autocommit mode is so much slower > than making all of them in one transaction. > > Why is that so slow?
If you do BEGIN; [statement]; COMMIT; one after another, is that as slow as autocommit? (My bet is yes.) A -- Andrew Sullivan a...@crankycanuck.ca -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
