On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Dong Ye <yed@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> As Heikki commented, VMware recently compared Postgres performance in >> an ESX (5.1) VM versus in a comparable native Linux. We saw 1. >> ESX-level locking causes no vertical scalability degradation, 2. > > FYI Vmware has an optimized version of Postgresql for use on VSphere > etc: http://www.vmware.com/products/vfabric-postgres/ There is actually no fork of the core in vFabric Postgres, Postgres core is unmodified as of release 9.3. Have a look at the release notes: https://www.vmware.com/support/vfabric-postgres/doc/vfabric-postgres-93-release-notes.html -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance