Re: On what we want to support: travel?

On November 2, 2006 07:12 am, Markus Schaber wrote:
> Hi, Brian,
>
> Brian Hurt wrote:
> > We don't even have to win the TPC benchmarks- simply competing puts
> > postgres in a different category.
>
> I agree with this point.
>
> And, additionally, this benchmarks could help the developers to improve
> PostgreSQL specifically in those areas where it does not win yet.

Saying that we need to join TCP to be able to improve PostgreSQL is not
correct, we have access to a lot of "TPC like" tests
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/tpc-w-php for example, but because it's not an
official TPC test we can't announce it's results with any marketing weight.
Al that TPC provides us is some official marketing buzzwords and industry
babble. Also the thought of altering PG in ways to make it perform better
specificaly for specific benchmarks is not what we should be throwing funds
or even more importantly developer time at.

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