Re: MSSQL versus Postgres timing

With seq scan on.
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Fuhr [mailto:mike(at)fuhr(dot)org]
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 12:07 PM
To: Joel Fradkin
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [SQL] MSSQL versus Postgres timing

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:54:11AM -0500, Joel Fradkin wrote:
>
> A table with 645,000 records for associates has view (basically select *
> from tblassociates where clientnum = 'test')
>
> This is taking 13 seconds in postgres and 3 seconds in MSSQL.

Please post the EXPLAIN ANALYZE output for the slow query, once
with enable_seqscan on and once with it off. For example:

SET enable_seqscan TO on; -- if not already on
EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT * FROM tblassociates WHERE clientnum = 'test';

SET enable_seqscan TO off;
EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT * FROM tblassociates WHERE clientnum = 'test';

> Be glad to provide the view and tables etc.

Please do -- it might help us spot something that could be improved.
What version of PostgreSQL are you using?

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Michael Fuhr
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