Re: prelimiary performance comparison pgsql vs mysql

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Mark Rae <mrae(at)purplebat(dot)com>
Cc: postgres list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: prelimiary performance comparison pgsql vs mysql
Date: 2005-03-16 00:00:25
Message-ID: 200503160000.j2G00PC09518@candle.pha.pa.us
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Mark Rae wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:46:50PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Mark Rae wrote:
> > > Also, while on the subject of scaling. I had the opportunity
> > > to try postgres on a 16CPU Altix and couldn't get it to scale
> > > more than about 4x, whereas Oracle got up to about 12x faster
> > >
> > We have had some major SMP improvements in current CVS. Were you
> > testing that or 8.0.X?
>
> It tried it with 8.0.0rc3, and had previously tried a 7.4 version

Oh, you have to try CVS HEAD or a nightly snapshot. Tom made a major
change that allows scaling in SMP environments.

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