Re: Inserting heap tuples in bulk in COPY
Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-08-12T21:59:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 13.08.2011 00:17, Simon Riggs wrote: > Also, we discussed that you would work on buffering the index inserts, > which is where the main problem lies. The main heap is only a small > part of the overhead if we have multiple indexes already built on a > table - which is the use case that causes the most problem. Sure, if you have indexes on the table already, then the overhead of updating them is more significant. I am actually working on that too, I will make a separate post about that. -- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com