| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | schen(at)graciousstyle(dot)com |
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| Subject: | Re: postgresql 8.0 advantages |
| Date: | 2005-02-25 16:15:15 |
| Message-ID: | 5708.1109348115@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Si Chen <schen(at)graciousstyle(dot)com> writes:
> I read the PostgreSQL 8.0 "What's New" page
> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/whatsnew) and wasn't sure whether
> version 8.0 is significantly faster, more scalability, or more stable
> than versions 7.4? I remember big speed improvements between 7.3 and
> 7.4. It seems the biggest advantage of version 8.0 is being able to run
> in Windows.
There are some speed improvements in 8.0 too, though that wasn't the
main focus of the release cycle. For instance, Lonni Friedman's nearby
thread reports on a case where 8.0 consistently finds a much better
query plan for a complex query than prior releases did, because we fixed
some issues in the GEQO planner module.
regards, tom lane
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