On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 4:42 AM Alex O'Ree <alexo...@apache.org> wrote:
> Is there anything I can to increase insert speeds for bytea? Currently > running postgres 9.6.15 > > I have a few tables without a bytea and a few with bytea. There is a large > performance difference with inserts between the two. I'm inserting a byte[] > that's usually less than 1MB on content. The content itself is actually > just utf8 string data. > > For the non-bytea table, inserts can be as high as 40k rows/sec, whereas > the bytea table is closer to 4k/sec or less. > > If this is just a limitation of postgres, then that's fine but the > performance delta is so significant that i feel like i'm missing something > That does seem pretty drastic. But I don't think we will get anywhere unless you post your actual benchmarking program so that we can try it for ourselves. I certainly don't see anything that drastic in my own testing. Maybe the bottleneck is on the client side. Cheers, Jeff
