Re: EXPLAIN ANALYZE on 8.2

Tom,
Hello.

This is a Linux Debian 3.1 ontop of 2x XEON 3.4 Ghz.
PostgreSQL is 8.2 checked out from CVS REL8_2_STABLE yesterday.
I'm running the same Postgres on another machine,
with Debian Etch and have the same results.

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:11:42 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Evgeny Gridasov <eugrid(at)fpm(dot)kubsu(dot)ru> writes:
> > Running the same query on pg 8.2 through EXPLAIN ANALYZE takes 4x-10x time as running it without it.
>
> If your machine has slow gettimeofday() this is not surprising. 8.2 is
> no worse (or better) than any prior version.
>
> Some quick arithmetic from your results suggests that gettimeofday() is
> taking about 3.3 microseconds, which is indeed pretty awful. What sort
> of machine is this exactly?
>
> regards, tom lane
>