Re: Postgres performance comments from a MySQL user - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Kaarel
Subject Re: Postgres performance comments from a MySQL user
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Msg-id 3EE789C7.6070303@future.ee
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In response to Re: Postgres performance comments from a MySQL user  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> We have had a policy for a long time that we'd rather the out-of-the-box
> settings be guaranteed to start than that they be optimal for
> performance.  No one is going to get as far as testing performance
> if the system won't start for them.

I get the point here and I respect that. I'm just afraid that as long as
the default settings reduce performance all benchamrks using the default
install will show postgre in slow light.


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