Re: [GENERAL] Slow Searches using MSAccess and ODBC to a PostGreSQL database

On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Valerio Santinelli wrote:

    What does the query look like, and what does the table look like?

// I've just setted up my PostGreSQL database on a Linux machine and it
// seems to work fine with the radius daemon i'm currently working on.
//
// Now I need to interface it with MSAccess to access data about our
// customers and other stuff stored in the postgres database. It seems to
// work correctly as to insertion, update and so on, but when I'm doing a
// search on every field on a substring it gets something like 2 minutes
// and a half to look in a 1500 records database and you all know that'd
// way too much.
// The search is on 8 fields on a single table.. what could I do to speed
// it up ? (When i was running this database just on Access it took at most
// 2 seconds for the whole search)
//
// I gave a look to the log and it seems that for every search on a single
// record it involves seven transactions on the same record.. that sounds
// strange to me.. anybody who can help me out ?
//
// Thanks.
//
// Valerio Santinelli
// tanis@mediacom.it
//
//
//

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