And ofcourse, you ran ANALYZE before doing any timings, right?

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 01:08:55PM +0100, Marek Lewczuk wrote:
> Hello,
> I have changed DB from MySQL to PostgreSQL. When I have run my 
> application on PostgreSQL it was disaster - it was much slower than 
> MySQL...
> 
> I have tried to change PG configuration file etc.. no luck. After many 
> long days of thinking what is wrong I have made several tests with 
> "EXPLAIN" statement, and to my amusement there was many SeqScan - MySQL 
> didn't show that things. I have made some changes in PG db structure 
> (new indexes etc) and then I have made another test: PostgreSQL time - 
> 10ms, MySQL time - 1 sec. I've tried to change the structure in MySQL 
> but it didn't change the results.
> 
> So my advise for all users which think that MySQL is faster than PG - 
> re-check your DB structure, check all your querys using EXPLAIN... maybe 
> new indexes should be added etc.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Marek
> 
> 
> 
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