Re: Maximum Possible Insert Performance?

William Yu wrote:
> My situation is this. We have a semi-production server where we 
> pre-process data and then upload the finished data to our production 
> servers. We need the fastest possible write performance. Having the DB 
> go corrupt due to power loss/OS crash is acceptable because we can 
> always restore from last night and re-run everything that was done since 
> then.

If you can, use COPY -- it is far faster than INSERT.

See:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-copy.html

HTH,

Joe