On 12.03.2007, at 22:46, Tom Lane wrote:
Most of us stopped reading about the place where they explained that (a) they did zero tuning on each database, and (b) they were comparing myisam to transactional engines.
What I don't like about things like that, is that some morons throw something together they call a "performance test", add some colorful graphs to it and it will be quoted for the next ten years, "decision makers" will base their recommendations on it and a lot of followers will just believe.
Whether or not this applies to the referenced test - judge yourself. cug