I repeated the test again. It took 0.92 second under 8.2.3.
I checked system load using top and ps. There is no other
active processes.

Xiaoning

Ron Mayer wrote:
Xiaoning Ding wrote:
Postgresql is 7.3.18. [...]
1 process takes 0.65 second to finish.

I update PG to 8.2.3. The results are [...] now.
1 process :    0.94 second

You sure about your test environment?  Anything else
running at the same time, perhaps?

I'm a bit surprised that 8.2.3 would be 40% slower than 7.3.18
even in the single process case.

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