Re: slow speeds after 2 million rows inserted

["Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>]

On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 13:21 -0500, James Neff wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > Also as you are running 8.2 you can use multi valued inserts...
> >
> > INSERT INTO data_archive values () () ()
> >   
> 
> Would this speed things up? Or is that just another way to do it?

The fastest way will be copy.
The second fastest will be multi value inserts in batches.. eg.;

INSERT INTO data_archive values () () () (I don't knwo what the max is)

but commit every 1000 inserts or so.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


> 
> Thanks,
> James
> 
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