Re: MSSQL versus Postgres timing

QUERY PLAN
"Merge Join (cost=47489.81..47975.65 rows=3758 width=111) (actual
time=27167.305..29701.080 rows=85694 loops=1)"
" Merge Cond: (""outer"".locationid = ""inner"".locationid)"
" -> Sort (cost=1168.37..1169.15 rows=312 width=48) (actual
time=261.096..262.410 rows=402 loops=1)"
" Sort Key: l.locationid"
" -> Index Scan using ix_tbllocation on tbllocation l
(cost=0.00..1155.44 rows=312 width=48) (actual time=213.107..259.160
rows=402 loops=1)"
" Index Cond: ('SAKS'::text = (clientnum)::text)"
" -> Sort (cost=46321.45..46535.47 rows=85611 width=74) (actual
time=26906.148..27689.258 rows=85695 loops=1)"
" Sort Key: a.locationid"
" -> Merge Right Join (cost=38119.24..39307.55 rows=85611 width=74)
(actual time=22236.915..25384.945 rows=99139 loops=1)"
" Merge Cond: (((""outer"".clientnum)::text =
""inner"".""?column10?"") AND (""outer"".id = ""inner"".jobtitleid))"
" -> Index Scan using ix_tbljobtitle_id on tbljobtitle jt
(cost=0.00..338.90 rows=6337 width=37) (actual time=164.976..2290.760
rows=5662 loops=1)"
" Filter: (1 = presentationid)"
" -> Sort (cost=38119.24..38333.26 rows=85611 width=52)
(actual time=20667.645..21031.627 rows=99139 loops=1)"
" Sort Key: (a.clientnum)::text, a.jobtitleid"
" -> Seq Scan on tblassociate a (cost=0.00..31105.34
rows=85611 width=52) (actual time=14.768..16024.395 rows=99139 loops=1)"
" Filter: ((clientnum)::text = 'SAKS'::text)"
"Total runtime: 30319.859 ms"

Joel Fradkin

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 11:59 AM
To: Joel Fradkin
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [SQL] MSSQL versus Postgres timing

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 10:54, Joel Fradkin wrote:
> All is moving along well.
>
> I have all my views and data and am testing things out a bit.
>
> A table with 645,000 records for associates has view (basically select
> * from tblassociates where clientnum = 'test')

What does

explain analyze select * from tblassociates where clientnum = 'test'

say?