Re: Why Not MySQL?

From: "Mitch Vincent" <mitch(at)huntsvilleal(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why Not MySQL?
Date: 2000-05-04 22:41:53
Message-ID: 002101bfb619$f33a8700$0300000a@doot.org
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> Well, drat. Looks like 7.0's query plan is slower :-(. There's
> something fishy about the numbers for 6.5.3 though --- how could it have
> done that query with zero blocks read? Are you sure you are comparing
> apples to apples here? I wonder whether the 6.5 system already had the
> tables cached in kernel disk buffers while 7.0 was working from a
> standing start and had to physically go to the disk.

This is very possible as the 6.5.3 PG is running on the production server
which is constantly being queried.

>Also, did both
> versions have the same -B and -S settings?

I didn't specify any -B or -S settings so both are using their respective
defaults..

Thanks!

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