Re: Anything I can do to speed up this query? - Mailing list pgsql-general

I am running this in the same machine as the database though.

Thanks


On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 16:02 -0500, Jan de Visser wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 December 2006 3:56 pm, Wei Weng wrote:
> > I have a table that has roughly 200,000 entries and many columns.
> >
> > The query is very simple:
> >
> > SELECT Field1, Field2, Field3... FieldN FROM TargetTable;
> >
> > TargetTable has an index that is Field1.
> >
> > The thing is on this machine with 1Gig Ram, the above query still takes
> > about 20 seconds to finish. And I need it to run faster, ideally around
> > 5 seconds.
>
> I suspect it's the time needed to ship the data over the wire. Don't forget
> you're asking for an awful lot of data...
>
> >
> > Wei
> >
>
> jan
>