Alexander Elgert wrote:

This results in a structure where I can itereate over all keys in the 2-dim array. You can see I iterate first over the databases and then over table AND columns!
--- mysql: ~1s (Database X)
--- postgres: ~1s (Database Y)
;)

In contrast: =======================================================

foreach database {
  foreach table {
      foreach column {
          do something ...
      }
  }
}
--- mysql: ~1s (Database X)
--- postgres: ~80s (Database Y)
;(

The second approach ist much faster, this must be because there is no nesting. ;(

What nesting? Are you trying to do sub-queries of some sort?
I did a loop over all tables and THEN calling a query for each table to get the columns (from the same table).
Yes, there are definitively more queries the DBMS has to manage.
(It is a bad style, but it is intuitive. Maybe the overhead of a single query is more time consuming than in mysql.)

I think I see what you're doing now. As Tom says, the information_schema has overheads but I must say I'm surprised at it taking 80 seconds.

I can see how you might find it more intuitive. I think the other way around myself - grab it all then process it.

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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd

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