Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:06:54 -0700
From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Joel Fradkin <jfradkin@wazagua.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: MSSQL versus Postgres timing
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On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:54:11AM -0500, Joel Fradkin wrote:
> 
> A table with 645,000 records for associates has view (basically select *
> from tblassociates where clientnum = 'test')
> 
> This is taking 13 seconds in postgres and 3 seconds in MSSQL.

Please post the EXPLAIN ANALYZE output for the slow query, once
with enable_seqscan on and once with it off.  For example:

SET enable_seqscan TO on;  -- if not already on
EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT * FROM tblassociates WHERE clientnum = 'test';

SET enable_seqscan TO off;
EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT * FROM tblassociates WHERE clientnum = 'test';

> Be glad to provide the view and tables etc.

Please do -- it might help us spot something that could be improved.
What version of PostgreSQL are you using?

-- 
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/