-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/14/07 14:34, Kenneth Downs wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Kenneth Downs <ken@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> Speaking as an end-user, I can give only one I've ever seen, which is >>> performance. Because of MVCC, Postgres's write performance (insert >>> and update) appears on my systems to be almost exactly linear to row >>> size. Inserting 1000 rows into a table with row size 100 characters >>> takes twice as long as inserting 1000 rows into a table with row size >>> 50 characters. >>> >> >> Not sure why you'd think that's specific to MVCC. It sounds like purely >> an issue of disk write bandwidth. >> >> regards, tom lane >> > > I did not see this in MS SQL Server. It is only logical that it will take 2x as long to insert 2x as much data. Maybe SQL Server is compressing out white space? Or (shudder) heavily caching writes? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGwhXTS9HxQb37XmcRAmdTAJ4rpK60hNtcvT82gCD4RG4EPtcC2wCeNR/C poURsgchjku2UC0y476KOfM= =KVNY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly