Le 16/04/2011 21:19, John Pagakis a écrit : > I've noticed this problem for a while, but haven't reported it. Sorry. > > If you run a query in PGAdmin saving the results to disk and that query > selects one or more booleans it takes orders of magnitude longer for the > result set to save to disk that it does if you do not select those columns > in the query. >
Well, if you have less data, it's not surprising it's quicker to export. > I've resorted to this work-around (when I remember it, and when I don't I > curse and go get a snack <grin>): > > Instead of: > > SELECT > col_a, > col_b, > is_a_boolean, > col_c > FROM > baz; > > If I do this: > > SELECT > col_a, > col_b, > CASE WHEN is_a_boolean = TRUE THEN 't' ELSE 'f' END > col_c > FROM > baz; > > I avoid the problem. > This is more surprising. I don't reproduce this on 1.12. Could you tell us more about your working set? how many lines for example? can you send me a self-contained examples with your time measurements? Thanks. -- Guillaume http://www.postgresql.fr http://dalibo.com -- Sent via pgadmin-support mailing list (pgadmin-support@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-support