Re: PostgreSQL scalability on Sun UltraSparc T1

On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 08:43:49AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Jochem van Dieten wrote:
> >Tweakers.net has done a database performance test between a Sun T2000 (8
> >core T1) and a Sun X4200 (2 dual core Opteron 280). The database
> >benchmark is developed inhouse and represents the average query pattern
> >from their website. It is MySQL centric because Tweakers.net runs on
> >MySQL, but Arjen van der Meijden has ported it to PostgreSQL and has
> >done basic optimizations like adding indexes.
> >
> >Arjen wrote about some of the preliminary results previously in
> >http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2006-06/msg00358.php
> >but the article has now been published http://tweakers.net/reviews/633/7
> >This is all the more impressive if you scroll down and look at the
> >behaviour of MySQL (after tweaking by both MySQL AB and Sun).
>
> I would love to get my hands on that postgresql version and see how much
> farther it could be optimized.

I'd love to get an english translation that we could use for PR.
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