AW: AW: Berkeley DB...

From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
To: "'Michael A(dot) Olson'" <mao(at)sleepycat(dot)com>
Cc: "'pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org'" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: AW: AW: Berkeley DB...
Date: 2000-05-25 15:56:15
Message-ID: 219F68D65015D011A8E000006F8590C604AF7DA7@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> > Wow, that sounds darn slow. Speed of a seq scan on one CPU,
> > one disk should give you more like 19000 rows/s with a
> small record size.
> > Of course you are probably talking about random fetch order here,
> > but we need fast seq scans too.
>
> The test was random reads on a 250GB database. I don't have a
> similar characterization for sequential scans off the top of my
> head.

Yes, for random access this timing sounds better. Was that timing taken with

access through a secondary index or through the recnum ?
Did you make sure that nothing was cached, not even the recnum index ?

Andreas

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