Re: postgresql under Windows is slow

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Andy Ruhl wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>
> > anybody has an experience how is stable postgresql under Windows system ?
> > I tried postgresq 7.1 under Cygwin, Windows 98 and was dissapointed
> > by very bad performance. Are there something I could tune ?
> > I got 250 sel/sec on simple select from table with 500 rows !
> > Under Linux I have 2500 sel/sec.
>
> What are your plans for postgresql on Windows? Just by the nature of the
> OS, I'd never expect too much performance from a Cygwin app, especially
> one like postgresql. Do you plan on running it on 98 in a production
> manner?

even worse, we have to port our application to Windows and it should
run under W95..XP on different hardware (PII ...). It'll run in
single-user environment (thank goodness). Database will have about
20-30 K rows.


>
> My own experience is that postgresql runs quite a bit slower on WinMe than
> my NetBSD box (same hardware), but I don't consider that to be a problem.
>

Did you make some special tuning ? btw, what's about locale support ?

> Andy
>
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>

    Regards,
        Oleg
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