Re: PostgreSQL vs MySQL, and FreeBSD - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Bill Moran
Subject Re: PostgreSQL vs MySQL, and FreeBSD
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Msg-id 20071109140454.924e94b1.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL vs MySQL, and FreeBSD  (Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>)
Responses Re: PostgreSQL vs MySQL, and FreeBSD  (Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>)
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On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 11:11:18 -0500 (EST)
Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Sebastian Hennebrueder wrote:
>
> > If the queries are complex, this is understable.
>
> The queries used for this comparison are trivial.  There's only one table
> involved and there are no joins.  It's testing very low-level aspects of
> performance.

Actually, what it's really showing is parallelism, and I've always
expected PostgreSQL to come out on top in that arena.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com

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