Re: Is There Any Way .... - Mailing list pgsql-performance

Unfortunately, no matter what I say or do, I'm not going to please
or convince anyone who has already have made their minds up
to the extent that they post comments like Mr Trainor's below.
His response style pretty much proves my earlier point that this
is presently a religious issue within the pg community.

The absolute best proof would be to build a version of pg that does
what Oracle and DB2 have done and implement it's own DB
specific memory manager and then compare the performance
between the two versions on the same HW, OS, and schema.

The second best proof would be to set up either DB2 or Oracle so
that they _don't_ use their memory managers and compare their
performance to a set up that _does_ use said memory managers
on the same HW, OS, and schema.

I don't currently have the resources for either experiment.

Some might even argue that IBM (where Codd and Date worked)
and Oracle just _might_ have had justification for the huge effort
they put into developing such infrastructure.

Then there's the large library of research on caching strategies
in just about every HW and SW domain, including DB theory,
that points put that the more context dependent, ie application
or domain specific awareness, caching strategies are the better
they are.

Maybe after we do all we can about physical IO and sorting
performance I'll take on the religious fanatics on this one.

One problem set at a time.
Ron


-----Original Message-----
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Sent: Oct 4, 2005 9:32 PM
To: "Douglas J. Trainor" <trainor@transborder.net>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Is There Any Way ....

Douglas J. Trainor wrote:

>
> Ron Peacetree sounds like someone talking out of his _AZZ_.
> He can save his unreferenced flapdoodle for his SQL Server
> clients.  Maybe he will post references so that we may all
> learn at the feet of Master Peacetree.  :-)

Although I agree that I would definitely like to see some test cases
for what Ron is talking about, I don't think that resorting to insults
is going to help the situation.

Ron, if you would please -- provide some test cases for what you are
describing I am sure that anyone would love to see them. We are all
for improving PostgreSQL.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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