Re: Major differences between oracle and postgres performance - what can I do ?

From: Paul Thomas <paul(at)tmsl(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: Gary Cowell <gary_cowell(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Major differences between oracle and postgres performance - what can I do ?
Date: 2004-06-18 12:09:27
Message-ID: 20040618130927.A17585@bacon
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On 18/06/2004 12:31 Gary Cowell wrote:
> [snip]
> I'm not as familiar with postgresql as I am with
> Oracle but I think I've configured comparible
> buffering and sort area sizes, certainly there isn't
> much physical IO going on in either case.
>
> What can I do to speed up this query? Other queries
> are slightly slower than under Oracle on the same
> hardware but nothing like this.

Usual questions:

have you vacuumed the table recently?
what are your postgresql.conf settings?
can you show us explain ANALYZE output rather than just explain output?

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