On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:05:12PM -0400, Jeff wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Darcy Buskermolen wrote: > > I'm still seeing differences in the planner estimates, have you run a VACUUM > > ANALYZE prior to running these tests? > > > I did. I shall retry that.. but the numbers (the cost estimates) are > pretty close on both. the actual times are very different.
I don't see why you need to bother, the query plans & cost estimates are similar enough I doubt that's the problem. > As I said in my first email IO isn't the problem here - the data set is > small enough that it is all cached (~10MB). iostat reports 0 activity on > the disks on both the sun and p2. Would it be possible to get a profile (e.g. gprof output) for a postgres backend executing the query on the Sun machine? -Neil ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings