Jonah,

> Where you should be looking is at the price/performance benchmarks,
> because that's where Postgres plays.  Last time I checked Postgres on
> a TPC-C, albeit being 100% free, was anywhere from $4.00 to $6.00 per
> transaction depending on the hardware.  Compare that to Oracle's $0.68
> or SQL Server's $0.84. 

You can't compare DBT2 with TPCC.  They're not the same benchmark.

--Josh

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