Re: Postgres vr.s Oracle

On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 13:06 -0500, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Brian Hurt <bhurt(at)janestcapital(dot)com> wrote:
> > Thought I'd point this blog post out to the list:
> > http://www.miketec.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/7-Oracle-and-Postgres-Redux.html
>
> Hmm... I wonder how scientific his benchmarking is and how well his
> Oracle system was tuned. Because I've done quite a few performance
> comparisons between Postgres 8.3 and 8.4-dev against a well-tuned
> Oracle8i instance on Linux, and 8i (from 1999) beats the latest
> versions of Postgres quite handily on the same hardware. And, while I
> have received permission from Oracle to publish the result, I haven't
> had the time to write up the blog entry yet.

<major snippage>

> who are so uninformed that they think Don Burleson is the
> be-all-end-all of Oracle tuning consultants.

Where is your patch?

Joshua D. Drake

>
> -Jonah
>
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