Same query, same performance

Hi all,

First, sorry for the long mail...

I have a system with 7 Million of records in 600 tables.
My actual production machine is: P4 1.6G, 3 IDE 7200, 1GB PC133
My new machine production is: Dual Xeon 2.0G HT, 1GB DDR266 ECC
3 SCSI with HW Raid 5

The postgresql.conf is the SAME in both systems and I test
with no other connections, only my local test.

shared_buffers = 80000
effective_cache_size = 60000
random_page_cost = 2.5
cpu_tuple_cost = 0.001
cpu_index_tuple_cost = 0.0001
cpu_operator_cost = 0.00025

My question is:

If I execute the same query executed a lot of times, the
duration is praticaly the same in both systems ?

1) ! 1.185424 elapsed 1.090000 user 0.100000 system sec
2) ! 1.184415 elapsed 1.070000 user 0.120000 system sec
3) ! 1.185209 elapsed 1.100000 user 0.080000 system sec

If the disks is not read directly, the system must find
the rows in RAM. If it find in RAM, why so diffrents machines
have the times of execution and why the times does not down ???

The variations of query show bellow have the times pratically
equals and my system send thousands os this querys with a
thousands of 1.18 seconds... :(

Very thank´s

Alexandre

Query:
[postgres(at)host1 data]$ psql -c "explain SELECT T2.fi15emp05,
T2.fi15flagcf, T2.fi15codcf, T1.Fn06Emp07, T1.Fn06TipTit, T1.Fn06TitBan,
T1.Fn06Conta1, T1.Fn06NumTit, T1.Fn06Desdob, T1.Fn05CodPre, T1.Fn06eCli1,
T1.Fn06tCli1, T1.Fn06cCli1, T2.fi15nome FROM (FN06T T1 LEFT JOIN FI15T
T2 ON T2.fi15emp05 = T1.Fn06eCli1 AND T2.fi15flagcf = T1.Fn06tCli1 AND
T2.fi15codcf = T1.Fn06cCli1) WHERE ( T1.Fn06Emp07 = '1' AND
T1.Fn06TipTit = 'R' ) AND ( T1.Fn06TitBan = '002021001525
' ) ORDER BY T1.Fn06Emp07, T1.Fn06TipTit, T1.Fn06NumTit, T1.Fn06Desdob,
T1.Fn05CodPre, T1.Fn06eCli1, T1.Fn06tCli1, T1.Fn06cCli1" Pro13Z
QUERY PLAN
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sort (cost=25875.53..25875.53 rows=15 width=155)
Sort Key: t1.fn06emp07, t1.fn06tiptit, t1.fn06numtit, t1.fn06desdob,
t1.fn05codpre, t1.fn06ecli1, t1.fn06tcli1, t1.fn06ccli1
-> Nested Loop (cost=0.00..25875.50 rows=15 width=155)
-> Seq Scan on fn06t t1 (cost=0.00..25808.30 rows=15 width=95)
Filter: ((fn06emp07 = 1::smallint) AND (fn06tiptit =
'R'::bpchar) AND (fn06titban = '002021001525
'::bpchar))
-> Index Scan using fi15t_pkey on fi15t t2 (cost=0.00..4.33
rows=1 width=60)
Index Cond: ((t2.fi15emp05 = "outer".fn06ecli1) AND
(t2.fi15flagcf = "outer".fn06tcli1) AND (t2.fi15codcf =
"outer".fn06ccli1))
(7 rows)

*** AND FROM LOG when a execute the query:

2003-01-23 00:09:49 [3372] LOG: duration: 1.285900 sec
2003-01-23 00:09:49 [3372] LOG: QUERY STATISTICS
! system usage stats:
! 1.286001 elapsed 1.240000 user 0.040000 system sec
! [1.250000 user 0.040000 sys total]
! 0/0 [0/0] filesystem blocks in/out
! 50526/130 [50693/372] page faults/reclaims, 0 [0] swaps
! 0 [0] signals rcvd, 0/0 [0/0] messages rcvd/sent
! 0/0 [0/0] voluntary/involuntary context switches
! buffer usage stats:
! Shared blocks: 0 read, 0 written, buffer hit
rate = 100.00%
! Local blocks: 0 read, 0 written, buffer hit
rate = 0.00%
! Direct blocks: 0 read, 0 written