Re: Slow response if pulling through pgadmin - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 11/10/15 9:39 AM, Mammarelli, Joanne T wrote:
> Hi – same rookie user as before.
>
> We have one table
>
> 100,000 rows
>
> 80 columns
>
> When we try to retrieve the data (select * from table) using pgadmin, we
> get a 193456 ms retrieve time.
>
> When I ran a query analyze in the command prompt, we get a 316ms
> retrieve time.

You mean EXPLAIN ANALYZE?

> .. and finally.  When we retrieve the data from the command line, we get
> a 5720 ms retrieve time.

What was psql doing with the output?

Basically, pgAdmin and psql aren't meant for users to deal with huge
data sets, because humans don't deal well with huge data sets.
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