Re: postgresql under Windows is slow

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Oleg Bartunov wrote:

> even worse, we have to port our application to Windows and it should
> run under W95..XP on different hardware (PII ...). It'll run in
> single-user environment (thank goodness). Database will have about
> 20-30 K rows.

Ugh. Why pay for an OS these days? The free ones are getting too good.
It's amazing how entrenched Windows is.

> > My own experience is that postgresql runs quite a bit slower on WinMe than
> > my NetBSD box (same hardware), but I don't consider that to be a problem.
> >
>
> Did you make some special tuning ? btw, what's about locale support ?

It was a very quick, seat of the pants test. I made a junk schema with
some insert statements. I noticed that it took a few seconds longer to
finish on Windows than in NetBSD. Didn't do anything more than that. Don't
know about locale stuff, I never have to change that stuff...

Andy

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