Re: [PERFORM] Postgres slower than MS ACCESS

2006-02-15 Thread Jay Greenfield
hanks, Jay. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Trout Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 6:23 AM To: Jay Greenfield Cc: 'Tom Lane'; 'Stephen Frost'; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Postgres sl

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres slower than MS ACCESS

2006-02-14 Thread Jay Greenfield
> Hmm, the large number of columns might have something to do with it ... > what datatypes are the columns? All sorts, but mostly float4 and varchar(2 to 10) Jay -Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:03 PM To: Jay Greenfi

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres slower than MS ACCESS

2006-02-14 Thread Jay Greenfield
nal Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 12:43 PM To: Stephen Frost Cc: Jay Greenfield; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Postgres slower than MS ACCESS Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While it's true

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres slower than MS ACCESS

2006-02-14 Thread Jay Greenfield
Greenfield Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Postgres slower than MS ACCESS On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 09:51, Jay Greenfield wrote: > I am running some simple queries to benchmark Postgres 8.1 against MS > Access and Postgres is 2 to 3 times slower that Access. A BUNCH OF

[PERFORM] Postgres slower than MS ACCESS

2006-02-14 Thread Jay Greenfield
I am running some simple queries to benchmark Postgres 8.1 against MS Access and Postgres is 2 to 3 times slower that Access.    Hardware: Dell Optiplex GX280 P4 3.20 GHz 3GB RAM Windows XP SP1   Database has one table with 1.2 million rows   Query: UPDATE ntdn SET gha=area/1000