On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 09:41:03AM -0800, novnov wrote:
>
> There is another blog article comparing postgresql with mysql, where the
> postgres is slow thing is repeated and the benchmark tends to confirm. The
> blogger is new to postgres and does not represent the test as definative.
>
> http://wskills.blogspot.com/2007/01/postgresql-vs-mysql-benchmark.html
Database is 80MB only, tiny. And his machine isn't very good either.
> Fourth, am I being a pita by posting this kind of message here? I do it
> because while I know it's an old and probably annoying topic for many of
> you, I don't like myths like postgres/slow mysql/fast being perpetuated. But
While interesting, people just throwing it on a machine and testing a
database much smaller than the amount of RAM they have, just isn't
meaningful.
Proper tests where they actually print what they tested, now that's
useful. But much more rare.
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
