Re: (download ANSI SQL benchmark?) Re: Postgres article

From: Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Pete Forman <pete(dot)forman(at)westgeo(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: (download ANSI SQL benchmark?) Re: Postgres article
Date: 2000-11-21 17:51:54
Message-ID: 3.0.1.32.20001121095154.021f68e0@mail.pacifier.com
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At 10:58 AM 11/21/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:

>> The MySQL folk have always cherry-picked their benchmarks, long lied
>> about features in PG, do their benchmarking using default values
>> for PG's shared buffer etc WITHOUT TELLING PEOPLE while at the same
>> time installing MySQL with larger-than-default memory usage limits (the
>> group hired by GB used MySQL's default installation, but EXPLICITLY SAID
>> SO in the report), etc.
>
>The revised results that are on GB's site now include curves for MySQL
>*with* tuning per advice from the MySQL folk.

That's good. Have the MySQL folk made any effort to reciprocate?

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
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