Re: Performance on inserts
Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au>
From: Chris <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au>
To: Matthew Kirkwood <matthew@hairy.beasts.org>
Cc: Jules Bean <jules@jellybean.co.uk>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-08-27T23:11:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Matthew Kirkwood wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Jules Bean wrote: > > > Is there any simple way for Pg to combine inserts into one bulk? > > Specifically, their effect on the index files. It has always seemed > > to me to be one of the (many) glaring flaws in SQL that the INSERT > > statement only takes one row at a time. > > One of MySQL's little syntax abuses allows: > > INSERT INTO tab (col1, ..) VALUES (val1, ..), (val2, ..); Wouldn't.... INSERT INTO tab (col1, ..); INSERT INTO tab VALUES (val1, ..); INSERT INTO tab (val2, ..); also avoid a database round trip??