Re: Index-speeds - Mailing list pgsql-general

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Subject Re: Index-speeds
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Msg-id 20010804053048.F48649@over-yonder.net
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In response to Index-speeds  ("Kapil Tilwani" <karan_pg_2@yahoo.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:35:45PM +0530, some SMTP stream spewed forth:
> Hi,
>         Could you just tell me, why do my Access queries run at
least 2 times faster than PG queries and 1.5 times faster than MS-SQL.
The query involves one master table containing 10000 records, left -
joined for getting Transactional sums from records in other tables...
Purchases, Sales, PurReturns, SalesReturns, OtherIssues.

>         It takes 60-75 seconds in access, 100-120 seconds in SQL Server and 150 seconds in PG

We really need more information. We need things like table definitions
and queries.

>         Secondly, is it possible to have an index like :
>     create index in_a on a.id where a.id>5000

Not in a current release.
There was some really good work done on partial indices recently, I
suspect they will be in 7.2.

> Thanx
> Kapil

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