Re: too slow

Shashi Gireddy wrote:
> I recently migrated from MySql, The database size in mysql was 1.4GB
> (It is a static database). It generated a dump file (.sql) of size
> 8GB), It took 2days to import the whole thing into postgres. ]

Well that sounds like you don't have your postgresql.conf configured
to properly utilize your system.

> After all
> the response from postgres is a disaster. It took 40sec's to run a
> select count(logrecno) from sf10001;

Are you running a RAID?

> which generated a value 197569.
> And It took for ever time to display the table. How to optimize the
> database so that I can expect faster access to data.

Have you analyzed?

>
> each table has 70 colsX197569 rows (static data), like that I have 40
> tables, Everything static.
>

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake
Command Prompt, Inc.
503-667-4564

> system configuration: p4 2.8ghz 512mb ram os: xp postgres version: 8.0
>
> thanks a million in advance,
> shashi.

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