RE: Is Oracle really so much faster

> > > However the result was (running on 64bit Sol 7, E250/1Gig 
> > > RAM) that Oracle was roughly twice as fast. Is this real
> > > or might there be stuff I could do, to improve postgres 
> > > performance?
> > 
> > PostgreSQL version?
> 7.0.2

Try 7.1 or use -F.

> > You didn't use -F, did you?
> What's -F ? 

This option disables fsync(). It's not honest to use -F for
comparison with other DBMSes, but before 7.1 it was only means
to be comparable -:)

Vadim