[postgis-users] Large geometry needs a lot of time to be inserted

[Miguel R. Luaces]

Dear all,

we have insertedd a very large geometry in a PostGIS database, and it has 
needed an awful lot of time.

Particularly, the geometry is a multipolygon with 308986 points, and it has 
needed 5803313 ms (over 90 minutes) in a modern computer (don't remember the 
specs, but it is Pentium IV with 1 GB RAM).

Is this normal? Are we doing something wrong?

Version information:

PostgreSQL 8.0.1 on i686-pc-mingw32, compiled by GCC gcc.exe (GCC) 3.4.2 
(mingw-special)
"0.9 USE_GEOS=1 USE_PROJ=1 USE_STATS=1"

Thank you very much in advance. Best regards,
  Miguel

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