femski wrote:
> I have a batch application that writes approx. 4 million rows into a narrow
> table. I am using JDBC addBatch/ExecuteBatch with auto commit turned off.
> Batch size is 100. So far I am seeing Postgres take roughly five times the
> time it takes to do this in the Oracle.
The usual tricks are:
- Drop indexes before loading, and rebuild them afterwards.
- Disable foreign key references while loading
- Use COPY instead of JDBC
Is the loading I/O or CPU bound? How long does the load actually take?
Are you running the latest version of PostgreSQL and the JDBC driver?
Have you read the "Populating a Database" chapter in the manual:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/populate.html
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