Re: Survey results from the PostgreSQL portal page

From: Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <avbidder(at)fortytwo(dot)ch>
To: PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Survey results from the PostgreSQL portal page
Date: 2003-01-19 14:47:14
Message-ID: 1042987634.3420.4.camel@altfrangg.fortytwo.ch
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On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 15:20, Justin Clift wrote:

>
> Now, we don't necessarily have a speed problem, as people who take the
> time to tune the database can attest to, so this is making me consider
> why such a large percentage of folk would vote for that.
>
> The possibilities that come to mind immediately are:

+ people measure postgresql by the speed of bulk imports

which seem to be faster on other dbs (I'm only repeating what I often
see on the lists), and don't consider that this is not something most
people do on a regular basis.

btw, PITR would get more hits if more people knew what it means... (Yes,
I know what it is, but I think many who don't read the mailing lists
etc. don't).

cheers
-- vbi

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