Benchmark shows very slow bulk delete - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Thom Brown
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Had a quick look at a benchmark someone put together of MySQL vs PostgreSQL, and while PostgreSQL is generally faster, I noticed the bulk delete was very slow: http://www.randombugs.com/linux/mysql-postgresql-benchmarks.html

Is this normal?

Thom

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