Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:32:11 -0300
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Carlo Stonebanks <stonec.register@sympatico.ca>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Is ODBC that slow?
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Carlo Stonebanks wrote:
> Our Windows-based db server has to integrate with users that work regularily 
> with Access.When attempting to import user's data from Access MDB files to 
> PostgreSQL, we try on eof two things: either import using EMS SQL Manager's 
> Data Import from Access utility, or export from Access to Postgresql via an 
> odbc-based connectionin both cases, the performance is just awful. 
> Performance with Tcl's native postgres driver seems rather fine running from 
> Windows a Windows client, BTW.
> 
> ODBC is often blamed for this sort of thing - I have the  8.01.02 release 
> dated 2006.01.31. Everything appears to be at its default setting.

Try Command Prompt's ODBC driver.  Lately it has been measured to be
consistently faster than psqlODBC.

http://projects.commandprompt.com/public/odbcng

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.