Re: Creating a test database and table

On Feb 9, 2009, at 7:23 AM, kulmacet101(at)kulmacet(dot)com wrote:

> All,
>
> I was creating a simple database for testing, as I created this
> table here
> is the response I got from the DB:
>
> NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence
> "movies_movie_id_seq"
> for serial column "movies.movie_id"
> NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index
> "movies_pkey" for table "movies"
>
>
> Query OK, 0 rows affected (1.391 sec)
>
> Here is the script I ran:
>
> create table movies (
> movie_id serial not null,
> title varchar(255) not null,
> ranking int,
>
> primary key (movie_id)
> );
>
> I am the only one accessing this server and DB. This table creation
> seems
> slow. The server is running on VMWare and has about 1GB of memory
> but this
> time for table creation seems slow. I am relatively new to Postgres
> and
> was wondering if there is a setting or adjustment that can be done to
> speed this up or is the time for this process about right. My
> thoughts are
> that an out of the box install should be sufficient but I think more
> adjustment is required.
>
> Any thoughts or opinions appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Kulmacet

What timings would you expect??

Try to create a second table and/or a third table and see if there is
any difference.
If you 'just' freshly start any DB (not only PG) then the first
operations
might be 'slow' due to caching or various other reasons I cannot
explain :) .
For me that table created in 350ms after PG has been idle on my
desktop for a day. Second table created in 35ms.

Don't expect a DB to create tables in the order of us....

PS: I might already know, running PG in vmware is just fine on a
development machine, but better to run it directly
on your favorite OS. Just don't run PG in vmware under production.

Ries