Yes, we don't care about the performance results, but we do care about the point that PostgreSQL can't give the correct results of TPC-H queries. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Andrew Sullivan" <ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 8:39 PM To: <pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL TPC-H test result? > On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 07:59:49PM +0800, Amber wrote: > >> I read something from >> http://monetdb.cwi.nl/projects/monetdb/SQL/Benchmark/TPCH/index.html > > Given that the point of that "study" is to prove something about > performance, one should be leery of any claims based on an "out of the > box" comparison. Particularly since the "box" their own product comes > out of is "compiled from CVS checkout". Their argument seems to be > that people can learn how to drive CVS and to compile software under > active development, but can't read the manual that comes with Postgres > (and a release of Postgres well over a year old, at that). > > I didn't get any further in reading the claims, because it's obviously > nothing more than a marketing effort using the principle that deriding > everyone else will make them look better. Whether they have a good > product is another question entirely. > > A > -- > Andrew Sullivan > ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > +1 503 667 4564 x104 > http://www.commandprompt.com/ > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general >
