On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Tim Uckun <timuckun(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> I'd be curious to see results of the same "update" on a standard HDD
>> vs the SSD, and maybe on a more typical database deployment hardware
>> vs a macbook air.
>>
>
>
> I haven't tried it on any other machine yet. CREATE TEMP TABLE tt as
> SELECT ... takes eight seconds so presumably the disk is not the
> choke point.
you are making an assumption that a fresh write is the same as a
re-write. try the test.
--patrick