Re: Postgres vr.s Oracle - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Jonah H. Harris
Subject Re: Postgres vr.s Oracle
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Msg-id 36e682920812132007me2a7063i8c6338a9aac99f51@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Postgres vr.s Oracle  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> My point is your signal to noise ratio is off. You very well could be
> correct (in fact I think you probably are) but it is irrelevant because
> all you do is hand wave.

I agree with that, which is why I did it and asked Oracle for
permission to publish it.  My goal was to point out that the benchmark
was far from being authoritative, repeatable, or well-understood and
that such things are almost baseless as a valid comparison.

> I am sure there are plenty of people in this
> community that would chew up and digest a valid benchmark from a
> Oracle/PostgreSQL expert but since we never see them, it is really hard
> to justify the work it would take to make significant architectural
> changes.

I likely did get carried away.  I hope to find time to write up my
findings along with everything needed to repeat the tests soon.

-Jonah

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