Re: Redis 16 times faster than Postgres? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: Redis 16 times faster than Postgres?
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Msg-id 20190930034810.GI2888@paquier.xyz
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In response to Re: Redis 16 times faster than Postgres?  (Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>)
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On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 04:52:15PM -0500, Ron wrote:
> On 9/29/19 4:42 PM, Colin 't Hart wrote:
> Redis is an in-memory key-value database. PostgreSQL... isn't.

Well, I think that you have never heard about the urban legend of
running Postgres on scissors then and this reminds me of this blog
post:
http://www.databasesoup.com/2015/02/running-with-scissors-mode.html

Note that sometimes I have run Postgres on a tmpfs as well to test
some specific patches.  So that can be done, and of course that's
unsafe.
--
Michael

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