[CLUE-Talk] Postgres RULES!!!!!! Linux is more good than cheap!!!!

[Dave Anselmi]

Grant Johnson wrote:

> update test_copy
> set stat=(select t2.val from test2 t2 where t2.prikey=test_copy.ctr::int)
> where stat='N';
>
> This little querry may not look like much, but on an Oracle on Solaris
> machine, it takes over 5 minutes to update 20,000 out of 35,000 rows.
>  The machine it is running is a dual CPU Ultra Sparc with a gig of RAM
> (not sure of CPU speed).  However, updating 250,000 of 500,000 on
> Postgres on Linux on a Celeron 300a with 256M of memory, it takes a
> minute and 5 seconds.  Both were run on nearly unloaded machines.  The
> Linux machine was additionally acting as a mail and file server at the time.

Hey, that's cool.  But what does this have to do with my sound card?  Aren't you
an audio engineer???  What's going on here????

<BG>
Dave