"Christian Stengel" <christian_stengel@...> wrote:

>
> Unfortunately - the more data you get in the longer it takes (for the
> 10. 1.000.000 records it takes 1m12.937s) - without any indices.

This should be significantly faster in FB2 and Vulcan.

> External files are slower than importing data with c-api in current
> versions of firebird. The only benifit is, that it's faster to
> implement them. ( 0m46.865s vs. 0m55.354s with external tables)

Current external file access isn't efficient, unfortunately. It can (and
should) be optimized.


Dmitry