Re: [HACKERS] Re: Browsing the tables and why pgsql does not perform well - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Re: Browsing the tables and why pgsql does not perform well
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Msg-id 199801242025.PAA07404@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Browsing the tables and why pgsql does not perform well  (Hannu Krosing <hannu@trust.ee>)
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> Even more unfortunately client side development tools like Access or
> Delphi seem to rely on sorted queries using indexes for sorting and as a
> result perform very poorly with PostgreSQL in their default modes.

I find Delphi to be poor even on Informix because Delphi thinks it has
an ISAM file behind each table, and when using an SQL engine, does tons
of table rescans every time it wants to change data in a table because
it doesn't have a physical row it can manage internally.

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Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us

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