On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 22:56:27 +0100, "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm a bit unsure -- should counting ~3 million rows (no OIDs, PG 7.4, > everything in cache, 32-byte rows) take ~3500ms on an Athlon 64 2800+?
It doesn't seem totally out of wack. You will be limited by the memory bandwidth and it looks like you get something on the order of a few hundred references to memory per row. That may be a little high, but it doesn't seem ridiculously high. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])