On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 02:06, Josuà Maldonado wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> Stephen Robert Norris wrote:
> >
> >
> > Speaking from long experimentation, you're much, much better off making
> > sure your indices and queries are optimal that messing around with
> > buffer space. Buffer space tuning might get you a few percent
> > performance once you pick a reasonable value; query tuning can get you
> > orders of magnitude.
> >
>
> I tunned my querys and all uses indexes and seems to be fast, but when
> my client app acccess the pg data it seems a little slow. I installed
> MSDE (mssql limited version) and copied the same data from pg to MSDE, I
> was surprised cuz running the same query with the same data and MSDE
> seems to be a little bit faster, after the changes in postgresql.conf
> described in the previus message pg perfomance increased a little but
> still there is no big difference against MSDE, considering hardware, pg
> is in a real server (dual Xeon 2.4 Ghz, 2G RAM, 3 36G SCSI drives on a
> RAID5) and the server is not in production, MSDE is in a AMD athlon 1Gh
> with 256RAM y should expect better performace from pg. I wonder if ODBC
> could be affect performance so high, my current ODBC driver is 7.03.02.
>
> Thanks
I have never used ODBC so I don't know how much that will effect
performance. What are the schemata for the tables, and what does explain
analyze tell you about the query?
Stephen
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