Re: A not so good comparison of MVCC implementations - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: A not so good comparison of MVCC implementations
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Msg-id 20180129045338.GB8173@paquier.xyz
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In response to Re: A not so good comparison of MVCC implementations  ("Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>)
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On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 05:07:43PM -0500, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>> On Jan 26, 2018, at 7:03 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 2:07 PM, Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> wrote:
>>>> Yeah, that's really deceptive.
>>>
>>> Skimming the paper, it also does not mention which versions of the software
>>> are being used.  Ideally how the DBs were configured on the hardware
>>> would be great to see too, but that may be asking too much.
>>
>> That's because they didn't use *any* version of PostgreSQL.  They
>> tested something that they claim works *like* PostgreSQL but is
>> actually not the PostgreSQL code.
>
> To clarify, that comment was based on all the databases they were using,
> not just PostgreSQL.

Their article never uses "configuration", "configure" and has no mention
about what kind of tuning they've done for any systems.
--
Michael

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