How does the performance compare using models mimicked from Oracle? Is
there any information anywhere on that?
Marek Lewczuk wrote:
> Użytkownik Robert Treat napisał:
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>> On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 08:07, Marek Lewczuk wrote:
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>> Yes. I think the gist of your post was "out of the box postgresql
>> performed like garbage compared to mysql, but then i spent some time
>> tweaking and tuning, taking advantage of indexes, and now it performs so
>> quickly that i am unable to make any changes within mysql to match
>> postgresql's performance"
>
> Exactly. But as I wrote before - tweaking and tuning wasn't so
> important... You cannot use the same db structure in both databases -
> even if you think that all indexes, keys are well for MySQL it could be
> not sufficient for PostgreSQL. Many people use the same structure and
> they see that PostgreSQL is slower... so I just wanted to tell them,
> that it is necessary to re-check structure which will be used with PG.
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>> I'm curious as to what type of application you run and what first
>> prompted you to switch to postgresql?
>
> It's analysis system for automotive market. There are many complicated
> querys, with many joins... PostgreSQL is much more flexible, more
> powerful and more stable than MySQL. There are also many other features
> which are just not available in MySQL...
>
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>> Robert Treat
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