Re: psql vs perl prepared inserts

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:57:09 -0400,
  Matt Van Mater <matt.vanmater@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Also, I forgot to mention earlier that I tried using transactions to
> speed things up, but since I expect to see certain inserts fail I
> would need to rework my code so the whole transaction doesn't fail if
> one insert goes bad.  This is somewhat contrary to the purpose of
> transactions so I'm not sure how to accomplish this.  I saw roughly a
> 20% speed improvement by turning autocommit off and only committing at
> the end of parsing each file.

You might get a small benefit using savepoints in version 8.