On May 24, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Ram Ravichandran wrote:
Hi,
I am deciding between MySQL and Postgres. I'm leaning towards
Postgres mainly due the widely publicized speed when using
transactions. However, I am not able to find any good books /
resources for tuning/ optimizing the database. Is there a book like
"High Performance MySQL" for Postgres that teaches what the
different parameters are and how to tune them?
The postgresql manual is good.
http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/postgresql/pg-5minute.htm is a
five minute tuning overview.
http://www.powerpostgresql.com/PerfList/ is a good overview of basic
tuning, written for 8.0 but still pretty applicable.
Hang out on the pgsql-performance mailing list and see what other
people do - "How do I tune a database for X" comes up pretty
regularly, and gets good answers, so trolling through the mailing list
archive can give some very good advice.
Or do most techniques covered in the High Performance Mysql apply to
Postgres too?
Probably not. Mysql has a very different philosophy to postgresql. And
some approaches that are suggested to work around performance issue on
mysql may actually harm performance on other databases.
Cheers,
Steve
