Re: inserting, index and no index - speed

>>>>> "TL" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

TL> Everything is always a transaction in Postgres.  If you don't say
TL> begin/end, then there's an implicit begin and end around each individual
TL> query.  So your first set of tests were paying transaction commit
TL> overhead for each insert.

This doesn't seem to hold exactly for INSERTs involving sequences as
default values.  Even if the insert fails for some other constraint,
the sequence is incremented.

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