Re: PostgreSQL vs. MySQL - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: PostgreSQL vs. MySQL
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Msg-id 20030704214951.L12459-100000@houston.familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL vs. MySQL  ("Brian Tarbox" <btarbox@theworld.com>)
List pgsql-performance
> I recently took a system from MySQL to Postgres.  Same HW, SW, same data.
> The major operations where moderately complex queries (joins on 8 tables).
>
> The results we got was that Postgres was fully 3 times slower than MySql.
> We were on this  list a fair bit looking for answers and tried all the
> standard answers.  It was still much  much much slower.

I have never found a query in MySQL that was faster than one in
PostgreSQL.

Chris



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