Re: slow performance postgres 7.0.3 and odbc

Hi,

Unlike access, PostgreSQL (and any other SQL-DB) flushes all writes directly to disk.
That makes SQL databases quite safe against power failures.
To improve performance database servers need fast hard drives.

If you are just creating a new table switching off fscnc() might speed up things considerably.
For normal (save) operation you should switch it on again.
When I create my database with several tables (with 20.000+ rows), I switch it off.

With fsync() off (backend option) you might get results less than 30 sec.

So it's not the driver.

Hope that helps,

regards

Johann

On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:21:16 +0200, juerg(dot)rietmann(at)pup(dot)ch wrote:

>Hello there
>
>I just made a test creating 2495 records from a C++ prog. into a postgres
>table. This took me around 4 minutes. Doing the same against an access db
>takes 30 seconds ! I use Version 6.50.00.00 from 04.02.2000.
>
>What can I do to speed up the ODBC performance?
>
>Thanks ... jr
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