Re: [HACKERS] postgres performance

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have installed PostgreSQL6.2.1 from my own user account (I was just trying
> to test out something first). It seems to be running too slow. For example,
> the self join of a table with roughly 300K records takes 2-3 hours. There is
> an index on the join attribute.
> I am running it on a 8 processor (each is a 248 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-II)
>  machine with a total of 2.0 GB main memory.
> But, since it is not parallelized, it may get the power of only one processor.

You said a self-join.  I think we have a performance problem there. 
Vadim?


> 
> Does it make a difference in performance since I have installed it from my
> user account, and not the root. Also, I compiled it using gcc on a 
> solaris 2.5 machine and the machine I ran it is a solaris 2.6 machine. I did
> that since the solaris 2.6 machine is the fastest we have here and the 
> executable
> compiled on 2.5 was running properly also. Can that have an impact on the
> performance?
> 
> Thanks
> --shiby
> 
> 
> 


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