On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 09:41:03AM -0800, novnov wrote: > > There is another blog article comparing postgresql with mysql, where the > postgres is slow thing is repeated and the benchmark tends to confirm. The > blogger is new to postgres and does not represent the test as definative. > > http://wskills.blogspot.com/2007/01/postgresql-vs-mysql-benchmark.html Database is 80MB only, tiny. And his machine isn't very good either. > Fourth, am I being a pita by posting this kind of message here? I do it > because while I know it's an old and probably annoying topic for many of > you, I don't like myths like postgres/slow mysql/fast being perpetuated. But While interesting, people just throwing it on a machine and testing a database much smaller than the amount of RAM they have, just isn't meaningful. Proper tests where they actually print what they tested, now that's useful. But much more rare. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
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