Re: realtime data inserts

"Adam Siegel" <adam@sycamorehq.com> writes:
> I have realtime data flowing at a rate of 500, 512 byte packets per second.
> I want to log the info in a database table with two other columns, one for a
> timestamp and one for a name of the packet.  The max rate I can achieve is
> 350 inserts per second on a sun blade 2000.  The inserts are grouped in a
> transaction and I commit every 1200 records.

Have you thought about using COPY?

            regards, tom lane