On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Bupp Phillips wrote: > I'm very new to Postgresql, so don't beat me up to bad if you see a problem, > just Inform me what I've done wrong. > > I'm use Postgresql 7.2 (PeerDirect's Windows port) on Win2000 384MB RAM 10GB > of Free space 800 Mhz, using the ODBC driver 7.03.01.00. > > I have a table that has 103,000 records in it (record size is about 953 > bytes) and when I do a select all (select * from <table>) it takes a > whopping 30 secs for the data to return!! > > SQLServer on the other hand takes 6 secs, but you can also use what is > called a firehose cursor, which will return the data in < 1 sec. > > I have done everything that I know how to speed this up, does anyone have > any advise?
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