Re: firebird X postgresql 8.1.2 windows, performance comparison

andremachado wrote:
> Hello,
> A friend asked for help to accelerate some postgresql queries on postgresql
> 8.1.2 for windows.
> He is comparing with firebird.
> Firebird was being up to 90 times faster at some queries.
> Attached is a gziped text file containing some steps I tried on a simple
> example query.
> Could get improvements from 270 seconds to 74 seconds.
> But Firebird effortlessly still can perform the same query at 20 seconds.
> Please, do you have some suggestion?
> Thanks.
>
Try increasing your work mem and shared buffers considerably.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

> Andre Felipe Machado
>
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