One more thing...show us the EXPLAIN of your insert. Is sounds like your insert is not using the index for the insert for some reason (buq in sqlite?).
You should see #3 in particular for keyinfo(). On 3.7.5 with a unique text column I get this for an insert: sqlite> explain insert into a values('String string string2'); addr opcode p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 comment ---- ------------- ---- ---- ---- ------------- -- ------------- 0 Trace 0 0 0 00 1 Goto 0 18 0 00 2 OpenWrite 0 2 0 1 00 3 OpenWrite 1 3 0 keyinfo(1,BINARY) 00 4 NewRowid 0 3 0 00 5 String8 0 4 0 String string string2 00 6 SCopy 4 5 0 00 7 SCopy 3 6 0 00 8 MakeRecord 5 2 1 ab 00 9 SCopy 3 7 0 00 10 IsUnique 1 12 7 5 00 11 Halt 19 2 0 column t is not unique 00 12 IdxInsert 1 1 0 10 13 MakeRecord 4 1 7 a 00 14 Insert 0 7 3 a 1b 15 Close 0 0 0 00 16 Close 1 0 0 00 17 Halt 0 0 0 00 18 Transaction 0 1 0 00 19 VerifyCookie 0 2 0 00 20 TableLock 0 2 1 a 00 21 Goto 0 2 0 00 Michael D. Black Senior Scientist Advanced Analytics Directorate Advanced GEOINT Solutions Operating Unit Northrop Grumman Information Systems ________________________________ From: sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org [sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org] on behalf of Fabian [fabianpi...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 12:11 PM To: General Discussion of SQLite Database Subject: EXT :Re: [sqlite] Slow inserts with UNIQUE 2011/10/29 Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> > > When you insert the 10,000 strings are you doing it inside a transaction ? > > BEGIN TRANSACTION; > INSERT ... > INSERT ... > INSERT ... > COMMIT; > > Yes, I use transactions, prepared statements, cache_size, journal_mode and synchronous PRAGMA's, almost everything you can think of to make it faster. But most important: I use the exact same code to fill the initial million rows, so if there was anything wrong, the initial filling would be slow too I suppose? _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users