> If you're running only a single query at a time (no multiple clients),
> then this is pretty much the definition of a MySQL-friendly workload;
> I'd have to say we are doing really well if we are only 50% slower.
> Postgres doesn't have any performance advantages until you get into
> complex queries or a significant amount of concurrency.
The original port was actually twice as slow. It improved quite a bit
after I added transactions and trimmed the schema a bit.
> You could possibly get some improvement if you can re-use prepared plans
> for the queries; but this will require some fooling with the client code
> (I'm not sure if DBD::Pg even has support for it at all).
Aye. We have prepared statements.
