Re: Inserts optimization?

Chris <dmagick@gmail.com> writes:
> Francisco Reyes wrote:
>> Doing my first write heavy database.
>> What settings will help improve inserts?
>> Only a handfull of connections, but each doing up to 30 inserts/second.

> If you can, use copy instead:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-copy.html

Or at least try to do multiple inserts per transaction.

Also, increasing checkpoint_segments and possibly wal_buffers helps a
lot for write-intensive loads.  Try to get the WAL onto a separate disk
spindle if you can.  (These things don't matter for SELECTs, but they
do matter for writes.)

            regards, tom lane