Re: [HACKERS] Re: [QUESTIONS] MySQL benchmark page

On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Luuk de Boer wrote:

> > > > I am not sure the results of postgres in the crash-me page is from
> > > > the final release of postgres. Because I have so much problems with
> > > > postgres it's at this moment hard to test.
> >
> > ??? Better stick with MySQL then...
>
> the problem is is that postgres isn't very stable and the releases
> are not well tested.

What *are* you talking about? This is based on extensive
experience with which version?? Which platform "isn't very stable", as
I'm running on Solaris/sparc and FreeBSD here, and haven't seen any
instability problems since v6.0 ... Vadim is running it on a FreeBSD box
with a several GB(?) database ... hell, someone I know from my past sent
me email the other day saying he was switching from msql to postgresql
because he was seeing 10x faster performance doing the same thing on Karl
Denninger's server...

> Approx 6 months ago some postgres developers
> mentioned something about including crash-me with postgres and
> testing postgres with crash-me before releasing it, but I think that
> didn't happen ...

Actually, it couldn't have been more then 4 months ago, since the
"some postgres developers" was me, and i know it was *since* v6.2.1 was
released, as I was hoping to get it into v6.3...