On 10/21/06, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Carlo Stonebanks wrote:
> Our Windows-based db server has to integrate with users that work regularily
> with Access.When attempting to import user's data from Access MDB files to
> PostgreSQL, we try on eof two things: either import using EMS SQL Manager's
> Data Import from Access utility, or export from Access to Postgresql via an
> odbc-based connectionin both cases, the performance is just awful.
> Performance with Tcl's native postgres driver seems rather fine running from
> Windows a Windows client, BTW.
>
> ODBC is often blamed for this sort of thing - I have the 8.01.02 release
> dated 2006.01.31. Everything appears to be at its default setting.
Try Command Prompt's ODBC driver. Lately it has been measured to be
consistently faster than psqlODBC.
http://projects.commandprompt.com/public/odbcng
just curious: what was the reasoning to reimplement the protocol stack
in odbcng? the mainline odbc driver went in the other direction.
carlo: please, please, get your mail server to quit telling me your
mailbox is full :)
merlin
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