Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ED321337999 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2010 17:07:44 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 32489-06 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2010 21:07:37 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from lpo-relay-05.vmsinfo.com (lpo-relay-05.vmsinfo.com [216.169.137.116]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A84541335B36 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2010 17:07:36 -0400 (AST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,285,1288584000"; d="scan'208";a="30464128" Received: from unknown (HELO lpo-mailbox-02.vmsinfo.com) ([216.169.137.252]) by lpo-relay-05.vmsinfo.com with ESMTP; 01 Dec 2010 16:07:36 -0500 Received: from [10.101.43.35] (lpo-autonomy-p03.vmsinfo.com [216.169.135.234]) by lpo-mailbox-02.vmsinfo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60F38562A1; Wed, 1 Dec 2010 16:07:36 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4CF6B917.10409@vmsinfo.com> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:07:35 -0500 From: Mladen Gogala Organization: VMS User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20101027) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Grittner CC: Mario Splivalo , "jd@commandprompt.com" , "pgsql-performance@postgresql.org" Subject: Re: SELECT INTO large FKyed table is slow References: <4CF24103.8030209@megafon.hr> <1291168052.20631.1963.camel@jd-desktop> <4CF5FF0A.9040605@megafon.hr> <4CF678FC.9050003@vmsinfo.com> <4CF67F2A.4070703@megafon.hr> <4CF682A7.4030109@vmsinfo.com> <4CF63073020000250003802E@gw.wicourts.gov> In-Reply-To: <4CF63073020000250003802E@gw.wicourts.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201012/18 X-Sequence-Number: 41470 Kevin Grittner wrote: > Mladen Gogala wrote: > > > > Been there, done that. Not only was performance quite poor compared > to Linux, but reliability and staff time to manage things suffered > in comparison to Linux. > > I must say that I am quite impressed with Windows 7 servers, especially 64 bit version. Unfortunately, I don't have any PostgreSQL instances on those, but Exchange works very, very well. Also, personal impressions from clicking and running office applications are quite good. Don't get me wrong, I am an old Unix/Linux hack and I would like nothing better but to see Linux succeed, but I don't like what I see. -- Mladen Gogala Sr. Oracle DBA 1500 Broadway New York, NY 10036 (212) 329-5251 http://www.vmsinfo.com The Leader in Integrated Media Intelligence Solutions