On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 01:50, William Carney wrote: > Hello, > > Using a test client application that performs 100000 insert operations on a > table, with the client application running on the same machine as the > Postgres server, I get the following results for the time taken to run the > test: > > Unix domain socket connection: 26 seconds > Inet domain socket ('localhost'): 35 seconds
> The machines used are P4s running FreeBSD 5.2.1. The Postgres version is > 7.4.3. Can anyone tell me why there's such a big difference? Domains sockets have significantly less work to do than inet sockets as well as less delays for the transmission itself. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match