Re: INSERT times - same storage space but more fields -> much slower inserts

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Bacula should be using COPY for the batch data loads, so hopefully won't
> suffer too much from having the fields split out.  I think it would be
> interesting to try doing PQexecPrepared with binary-format data instead
> of using COPY though.  I'd be happy to help you implement a test setup
> for doing that, if you'd like.

You can always do binary-format COPY.

Matthew

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