> > I've done the tests with rc1. This is still as slow on windows ... > about > > 6-10 > > times slower thant linux (via Ip socket). (depending on > using prepared > > queries, etc...) > > > > By the way, we've tried to insert into the windows database from a > linux > > psql > > client, via the network. In this configuration, inserting is only > about 2 > > times slower than inserting locally (the linux client had a > slower CPU > > 1700Mhz agains 3000). > > Could it be related to a problem in the windows psql client ? > > [OK, I'm bringing this back on-list, and bringing it to > QingQing's attention, who I secretly hope is the right person > to be looking at this problem :)] > > Just to recap Marc and I have been looking at the performance > disparity between windows and linux for a single transaction > statement by statement insert on a very narrow table with no > keys from a remote client. Marc's observations showed (and I > verified) that windows is much slower in this case than it > should be. I gprof'ed both the psql client and the server > during the insert and didn't see anything seriously out of > order...unfortunately QQ's latest win32 performance tweaks > haven't helped. > > Marc's observation that by switching to a linux client drops > time down drastically is really intersing! Could this be a case of the network being slow, as we've seen a couple of times before? And if you run psql on the local box, you get it double. Do you get a speed difference between the local windows box and a remote wnidows box? //Magnus
