Re: A not so good comparison of MVCC implementations

From: "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: A not so good comparison of MVCC implementations
Date: 2018-01-28 22:07:43
Message-ID: F09911E0-667C-4F12-A0E9-AE8C5752FB93@postgresql.org
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Hi Robert,

> On Jan 26, 2018, at 7:03 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 2:07 PM, Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>>> Yeah, that's really deceptive.
>>
>> Skimming the paper, it also does not mention which versions of the software
>> are being used. Ideally how the DBs were configured on the hardware
>> would be great to see too, but that may be asking too much.
>
> That's because they didn't use *any* version of PostgreSQL. They
> tested something that they claim works *like* PostgreSQL but is
> actually not the PostgreSQL code.

To clarify, that comment was based on all the databases they were using,
not just PostgreSQL.

Thanks,

Jonathan

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