Re: [GENERAL] insertion becoming slow

2005-10-24 Thread Csaba Nagy
OK, it's quite some time from when the original question was posted, but now I have more data... see below. On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 19:24, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:24:02AM +0200, Csaba Nagy wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've recently asked a similar question, which received no

Re: [GENERAL] insertion becoming slow

2005-09-29 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 03:09:43PM +0530, surabhi.ahuja wrote: > is it some logging information that is being written into some file at the > end of some transactions > (each intsall is one transaction for me) > > the data directory is containing these folders.. > > base/pg_clog/ pg_i

Re: [GENERAL] insertion becoming slow

2005-09-29 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:24:02AM +0200, Csaba Nagy wrote: > Hi all, > > I've recently asked a similar question, which received no useful answer > yet, so I'll drop in too. > > In my case, the table I was inserting to was a quite big one already to > start with (and analyzed so), so I was expect

Re: [GENERAL] insertion becoming slow

2005-09-27 Thread Csaba Nagy
Hi all, I've recently asked a similar question, which received no useful answer yet, so I'll drop in too. In my case, the table I was inserting to was a quite big one already to start with (and analyzed so), so I was expecting that it will not slow down due to indexes, as they were quite big to s

Re: [GENERAL] insertion becoming slow

2005-09-26 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 12:58, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 05:55:18PM +0530, surabhi.ahuja wrote: > > i have seen that after insertion say (20 k rows) the insertion to tables > > becomes slow..why is it? > > Most likely due to indexes. > > > is there any way in which u can stop t

Re: [GENERAL] insertion becoming slow

2005-09-26 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 05:55:18PM +0530, surabhi.ahuja wrote: > i have seen that after insertion say (20 k rows) the insertion to tables > becomes slow..why is it? Most likely due to indexes. > is there any way in which u can stop the performance from degrading If you're loading from scratch,