Mischa Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Our product (Sophos PureMessage) runs on a Postgres database. > Some of our Solaris customers have Oracle licenses, and they've > commented on the performance difference between Oracle and Postgresql > on such boxes. In-house, we've noticed the 2:1 (sometimes 5:1) > performance difference in inserting rows (mostly 2-4K), between > Postgresql on Solaris 8 and on Linux, for machines with comparable > CPU's and RAM.
You haven't given any evidence at all to say that I/O is where the problem is. I think it would be good first to work through the conventional issues such as configuration parameters, foreign key problems, etc. Give us some more detail about the slow INSERT queries ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])