PostGIS vs. Shapefile

[Lyndon Tiu]

On February 10, 2005 02:03 am, Daniele Margotti wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have made some spatial queries (with cgi-bin Mapserver 4.2.3)
> alternately with data stored in shapefiles and PostGIS (imported from
> these shapefiles).
>
> My query (304 elements on 5 layers) takes 5 seconds (elaboration, and
> then output on browser) if data are read from shapefiles, and about 50
> seconds if data are read from PostGIS.
>
> The query is the same: I simply press "reload" on my browser (after
> manually changed .map file and query template files) to be sure of it...
>
> Is it normal?
>

Is Postgis in the same computer as mapserver?

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Lyndon Tiu