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Re: realtime data inserts

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Adam Siegel" <adam@sycamorehq.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-05-10T16:00:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-performance, pgsql-general 
"Adam Siegel" <adam@sycamorehq.com> writes:
> I have realtime data flowing at a rate of 500, 512 byte packets per second.
> I want to log the info in a database table with two other columns, one for a
> timestamp and one for a name of the packet.  The max rate I can achieve is
> 350 inserts per second on a sun blade 2000.  The inserts are grouped in a
> transaction and I commit every 1200 records.

Have you thought about using COPY?

			regards, tom lane