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  1. Re: [GENERAL] Re: More PostgreSQL stuff

    Richard Lynch <lynch@lscorp.com> — 1998-10-02T17:15:35Z

    At 8:20 AM 10/2/98, Oliver Elphick wrote:
    >Copied to PostgreSQL lists, in the hope of comments from the experts...
    >
    >Martin Schulze wrote:
    >  >Is there a way to speed up postgres?  I'm converting one of my
    >  >major apps from mSQL to PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL is at least three
    >  >times slower.  That's horrible.  With this slowlyness I cannot
    >  >install PostgreSQL in the office but only at home.
    
    Also be sure that you have indexed the fields you use most for queries.
    
    And be sure to do a vaccuum after major data insertion/updates.
    
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  2. Re: [GENERAL] Re: More PostgreSQL stuff

    Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de> — 1998-10-02T17:56:18Z

    Richard Lynch wrote:
    > At 8:20 AM 10/2/98, Oliver Elphick wrote:
    > >Copied to PostgreSQL lists, in the hope of comments from the experts...
    > >
    > >Martin Schulze wrote:
    > >  >Is there a way to speed up postgres?  I'm converting one of my
    > >  >major apps from mSQL to PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL is at least three
    > >  >times slower.  That's horrible.  With this slowlyness I cannot
    > >  >install PostgreSQL in the office but only at home.
    > 
    > Also be sure that you have indexed the fields you use most for queries.
    
    I mainly use queries with "WHERE nr = %d" and nr is an index
    field.
    
    > And be sure to do a vaccuum after major data insertion/updates.
    
    I haven't done this.  *This* was a *very* good idea.  First
    tries showed that PostgreSQL is only 1/3 slower than the old SQL
    database.  This is much more acceptable.
    
    Thank you very much.
    
    Regards,
    
    	Joey
    
    -- 
    A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.