"Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> cost is having to fsync the whole table afterwards. So it really only
>> makes sense for commands that one can expect are writing pretty much
>> all of the table. I could easily see it being a net loss for individual
>> INSERTs.
> What about multi value inserts? Just curious.
I wouldn't want the system to assume that a multi-VALUES insert is
writing most of the table. Would you? The thing is reasonable for
inserting maybe a few hundred or few thousand rows at most, and that's
still small in comparison to typical tables.
regards, tom lane
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