Re: Berkeley DB...

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> > > Well, I've dropped index but INSERTs still take 70 sec and 
> > > COPY just 1sec -:(((
> > 
> > Well, for those that have fsync turned off we could actually 
> > avoid most of the writes, could'nt we ? Just leave the page
> > marked dirty. We would only need to write each new page once.
> > The problem as I see it is, that we don't have a good place 
> > where the writes would actually be done. Now they are obviously
> > done after each insert.
> 
> I've run test without fsync and with all inserts in *single*
> transaction - there should be no write after each insert...

Watch out.  I think Vadim is settled into San Franciso and is getting
fired up again...  :-)

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