Re: Data Warehouse Reevaluation - MySQL vs Postgres --

What MySQl-table-type did you use?
Was it "MyISAM" which don't supports transactions ?
Yes I read about that bulk-inserts with this table-type are very fast.
In Data Warehouse one often don't need transactions.

Leeuw van der, Tim schrieb:
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:pgsql-performance-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org]On Behalf Of Steinar H.
> Gunderson
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 3:33 PM
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> Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Data Warehouse Reevaluation - MySQL vs Postgres --
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> > On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 02:42:20PM +0200, Leeuw van der, Tim wrote:
> > > - PostgreSQL 7.3 running on CYGWIN with cygipc daemon
> >
> > Isn't this doomed to kill your performance anyhow?
>
> Yes and no, therefore I mentioned it explicitly as one of the caveats.
> When doing selects I could get performance very comparable to MySQL, so
> I don't want to blame poor insert-performance on cygwin/cygipc per se.
> I'm not working on this app. anymore and don't have a working
> test-environment for it anymore so I cannot retest now with more recent
> versions.
>
> regards,
>
> --Tim
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> > /* Steinar */
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