>>>>> "TL" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
TL> Everything is always a transaction in Postgres. If you don't say
TL> begin/end, then there's an implicit begin and end around each individual
TL> query. So your first set of tests were paying transaction commit
TL> overhead for each insert.
This doesn't seem to hold exactly for INSERTs involving sequences as
default values. Even if the insert fails for some other constraint,
the sequence is incremented.
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