At 12:59 PM 5/25/00 +0200, Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:
> Wow, that sounds darn slow. Speed of a seq scan on one CPU,
> one disk should give you more like 19000 rows/s with a small record size.
> Of course you are probably talking about random fetch order here,
> but we need fast seq scans too.
The test was random reads on a 250GB database. I don't have a
similar characterization for sequential scans off the top of my
head. mike