Re: Speeding up operations

"Rahul_Iyer" <rahul_iyer@persistent.co.in> writes:
> im on a project using Postgres. The project involves, at times, upto
> 5,000,000 inserts. I was checking the performance of Postgres for 5M inserts
> into a 2 column table (one col=integer, 2nd col=character). I used the
> Prepare... and execute method, so i basically had 5M execute statements and
> 1 prepare statement. Postgres took 144min for this... is there any way to
> improve this performance?

COPY, perhaps.  Have you read
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/view.php?version=7.3&idoc=0&file=populate.html
        regards, tom lane