On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> My point is your signal to noise ratio is off. You very well could be
> correct (in fact I think you probably are) but it is irrelevant because
> all you do is hand wave.

I agree with that, which is why I did it and asked Oracle for
permission to publish it.  My goal was to point out that the benchmark
was far from being authoritative, repeatable, or well-understood and
that such things are almost baseless as a valid comparison.

> I am sure there are plenty of people in this
> community that would chew up and digest a valid benchmark from a
> Oracle/PostgreSQL expert but since we never see them, it is really hard
> to justify the work it would take to make significant architectural
> changes.

I likely did get carried away.  I hope to find time to write up my
findings along with everything needed to repeat the tests soon.

-Jonah

In response to

• Re: Postgres vr.s Oracle at 2008-12-13 19:28:52 from Joshua D. Drake

pgsql-advocacy by date

Next:	From: Jonah H. Harris	Date: 2008-12-14 04:34:33
	Subject: Re: Postgres vr.s Oracle
Previous:	From: Robert Treat	Date: 2008-12-13 20:38:58
	Subject: Re: Postgres vr.s Oracle