Re: PostgreSQL x Oracle

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 06:22:19PM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> On 10 Feb 2003 at 13:41, Karel Zak wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:50:13AM -0300, Marcelo Pereira wrote:
> >
> > > What about speed?? Is Oracle faster than PostgreSQL?? Why?? I believe
> > > that some day the PostgreSQL development team will improve the engine and
> > > it will be as fast as Oracle.
> >
> > Speed? Use MySQL :-) I think real relation database use is not about
> > speed only -- it means speed is not always most important argument. I
> > sure people use Oracle for the others features.
>
> Not too good of an argument. It gives an impression that postgresql community
> want to hide behind features and claim that speed is not necessary. Sounds very

Nobody wants to hide something. You can test the PostgreSQL speed,
you can write and talk about it, you can install bench test. It's
nothing hidden. I'm unsure if you can do it for Oracle too...

Karel

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