> Agreed. Stonebraker measured Shore DBMS, which is an academic
> database:
>
> http://research.cs.wisc.edu/shore/
>
> If he had measured a production-quality database that had been
> optimized like Postgres, I would take more stock of his "overhead"
> numbers.
Exactly! And that's what I'm asking: has anyone done or know of any figures for Postgres, to set against these?
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David M Bennett FACS
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