On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Ivan Voras wrote:
>> Returning 8449 rows could be quite long.
>
> You are right, I didn't test this. Issuing a query which returns a
> smaller result set is much faster.
>
> But, offtopic, why would returning 8500 records, each around 100 bytes
> long so around 8.5 MB, over local unix sockets, be so slow? The machine
> in question has a sustained memory bendwidth of nearly 10 GB/s. Does
> PostgreSQL spend much time marshalling the data through the socket stream?
It's disk access time.
in the very bad case it could take ~5 ms (for fast drive) to get one just
one row.
Regards,
Oleg
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