Thread: Performance benchmarking

Performance benchmarking

From
lai yoke hman
Date:

Hello,
I am an undergraduate of a university in Malaysia, if I want to do performance benchmark on PostgreSQL 8, do I need to
geta license agreement or some sort of thing? 
Thanks.


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Re: Performance benchmarking

From
"Joshua D. Drake"
Date:
lai yoke hman wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I am an undergraduate of a university in Malaysia, if I want to do performance benchmark on PostgreSQL 8, do I need
toget a license agreement or some sort of thing? 
> Thanks.

No. PostgreSQL is open source.

Joshua D. Drake

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Re: Performance benchmarking

From
"Uwe C. Schroeder"
Date:
No, you can do with it whatever you want, except blame/sue the copyrightholder
for any problems you might have with it (software is AS IS).

On Thursday 05 July 2007, lai yoke hman wrote:
> Hello,
> I am an undergraduate of a university in Malaysia, if I want to do
> performance benchmark on PostgreSQL 8, do I need to get a license agreement
> or some sort of thing? Thanks.
>
>
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> officially released yet! http://get.live.com/beta
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Re: Performance benchmarking

From
Steve Crawford
Date:
lai yoke hman wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I am an undergraduate of a university in Malaysia, if I want to do performance benchmark on PostgreSQL 8, do I need
toget a license agreement or some sort of thing? 
> Thanks.

Your license, provided without charge, is here:
http://www.postgresql.org/about/licence

As to benchmarking...

Please be sure to read up on the postgresql.conf settings - the default
settings are designed to get the server to start on a reasonably wide
range of platforms. It is assumed that the DBA will update these
settings as appropriate for the platform and workload in use. Failure to
do so will have serious performance implications.

Also be sure you are familiar with VACUUM and ANALYZE and the effect
they have on performance.

Cheers,
Steve