Re: Performance penalty for remote access of postgresql (8.1.3)? any experiance?

* Guoping Zhang:

>   a) Anyone has the similar experience? How do you deal with it?
>   b) Why TCP stack imposes such big delay? any tuning point I shall do?

If you use INSERT, you'll incur a network round-trip delay for each
record.  Try using COPY FROM instead, possibly to a temporary table if
you need more complex calculations.  If you do this, there won't be a
huge difference between local and remote access as long as the
bandwidth is sufficient.

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