Re: PostgreSQL giving jitters to Skypak

Folks,

Aha! I found e-mail for the company. Sent to their VP of IT.

A copy of the message is below my .sig. HOWEVER, please do be aware that
there is likely a great deal more to the story than the article presents;
Skypak may be thinking of switching away from PostgreSQL for reasons that
have nothing to do with actual performance. For example, they may be using
it on Cygwin; you'll notice that the article doesn't mention a platform.

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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Mr. Warnekar,

We in the postgresql community were distrubed to read of your company's rather
public repudation of PostgreSQL. Much more so because nobody in our active
online community of developers -- including a number of Indians -- was aware
that you were using PostgreSQL, let alone that you had problems with it.

Was your staff aware that a great deal of expert, peer-to-peer help for
PostgreSQL is available online? Were your problems raised on the
PGSQL-PERFORMANCE e-mailing list or elsewhere?

I spend quite a bit of time tuning PostgreSQL professionally for clients in
the United States; it is how I support my participation in the Project. I
find it somewhat hard to believe that PostgreSQL would not perform well under
the loads you descibe in the article.

Please consider sharing your issues with the community; I'm sure it would be
cheaper to solve your performance problems with PostgreSQL than to port to
another system. I look forward to hearing from you.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Core Team
http://advocacy.postgresql.org
San Francisco