From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
To: Carlo Stonebanks <stonec.register@sympatico.ca>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Cc: alvherre@commandprompt.com
Subject: Re: Is ODBC that slow?
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:20:01 +0530
Message-ID: <b42b73150610201950mc1f4163i67d3fdabb514befd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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<20061021023211.GA20508@alvh.no-ip.org>
On 10/21/06, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> 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
just curious: what was the reasoning to reimplement the protocol stack
in odbcng? the mainline odbc driver went in the other direction.
carlo: please, please, get your mail server to quit telling me your
mailbox is full :)
merlin
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