Re: [GENERAL] SLOOOOOOOW

2005-09-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 01:50, Jürgen Rose wrote: > Scott Marlowe wrote: > > > > A couple of points: > > > > 1: You wouldn't buy the QE II (a big luxery liner) and complain that it > > doesn't work well for water skiing and is too complex. It's the QE II. > > I don't get that argument. The real

Re: [GENERAL] SLOOOOOOOW

2005-09-07 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
Apparently postgresql runs at 11% to 45% of normal speed in VMware workstation. Basically it could be about 1/10th the performance for OLTP stuff. See here: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/performance.html (Notice also that the web server performance is less than 30% of native).

Re: [GENERAL] SLOOOOOOOW

2005-09-07 Thread Jürgen Rose
Scott Marlowe wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 16:09, Jürgen Rose wrote: Sorry, but I better use this email address, I just hate to use Outlook for this stuff. To Peter Eisentraut Yes, I've read the chapter in the manual. To Michael Glaesemann locally I run the database on my laptop (Dell D800

Re: [GENERAL] SLOOOOOOOW

2005-09-06 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 16:09, Jürgen Rose wrote: > Sorry, but I better use this email address, I just hate to use Outlook > for this stuff. > > To Peter Eisentraut > > Yes, I've read the chapter in the manual. > > To Michael Glaesemann > > locally I run the database on my laptop (Dell D800) 1 G

Re: [GENERAL] SLOOOOOOOW

2005-09-06 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen_Rose?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > enough of ranting, but I'm totally frustrated So are we, because you haven't provided nearly enough detail to let anyone help you. A complete test case would be good, for instance. regards, tom lane ---

Re: [GENERAL] SLOOOOOOOW

2005-09-06 Thread Ian Harding
On 9/6/05, Jürgen Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did some serious stuff with SQLServer and Interbase, and I had > **never** those performance problems. > On a laptop? Under VMWare? I have used MSSQL Server too, and find PostgreSQL to compare favorably in most cases. You may have found

Re: [GENERAL] SLOOOOOOOW

2005-09-05 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-09-05 09:39:47 +0200: > I working now for a wile with postgres (7.4), and I have the impression > that is one of the slowest dbms with which I've aver worked. Can please > somebody explain to me, why this is the case? Because the default configuration (is | seems to