Re: [HACKERS] Postgres Speed or lack thereof

At 11:29 19/01/99 -0500, you wrote:
>can you explain the -F flag? when is it passed to what? Can this be done
>in plpgsql? how?

Or passed by libpq in a C program that needs to insert (as fast as
possible) a lot of new rows? 
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>
>john
>On
>Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru> writes:
>> > For the table with single int4 column & 2000 INSERTs I have:
>> 
>> > BEGIN/END:        3.5sec        ~600insert/sec
>> > Without:          151sec        ~13insert/sec
>> 
>> > (IDE disk!)
>> 
>> > I guess that you don't use -F flag..?
>> 
>> *Do* use -F, you meant of course.  You're right, I do.  With an
>> fsync after every transaction, I'm sure my test would've been much
>> slower.
>> 
>> However, with a UPS and an OS that only crashes about once every
>> other year, I feel pretty secure using -F ...
>> 
>>             regards, tom lane
>> 
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