Is it sad that I think 6 days is pretty fast?

I've worked places where 6 days would be a miracle. For me, the worst has always been when the database query plan suddenly switched to something with a full table scan (I'm looking at you Sybase) or the always fun full sort merge (nice going Ingres). It always seemed to come down to forcing indexes which tended to get deployed fairly quickly.

Yes, it's very sad. I get kind of twitchy and nervous if code that I have written doesn't get tested and into production same-day or next day.

So do the reasons why such infuriating processes are enacted.