Re: postgres is slow??

Could you show us the TCL script that you have written

Thanks

Darren

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Cheirie Shum wrote:

> Hi, I've written a little tcl program to test how many seconds it takes to
> run an 'update' transaction and found that the running time increases by a
> couple of seconds every time i run my script.
>
> My script does the following:
> -connect to postgres
> -updates a row and then updates it again with some other value
> -iterate the update step above 200 times
> -print the number of seconds that iteration took
> -disconnect from postgres
>
> Results: So the first time, i get about 2 seconds, then 4, 6, 8... etc.
>
> So, each time that row gets updated, the longer the next update takes...
> What is happening? What do i need to do so that postgres doesn't do this?
> ... What do i need to do so that postgres always updates a row 200 times
> in 2 seconds?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Please reply to: cshum(at)cats(dot)ucsc(dot)edu
>
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