Re: benchmarking postgres

Vince Vielhaber wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, mlw wrote:
>
> > Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > >
> > > Look at this: (top one)
> > >
> > > http://www.mysql.com/information/benchmarks.html
> > >
> > > Does anyone feel like running the MySQL benchmark against postgres 7.2 to
> > > see if there's been a real speed improvement??
> > >
> > > Chris
> >
> > These guys are just A$%$%holes. We have to come up with a benchmark which shows
> > the the difference between a stupid little file-locking single user toy, and a
> > real tansactional system.
> >
> > Maybe we too can put in little snide remarks about MySQL.
>
> If someone comes up with a simple and objective comparison (preferably
> with the nice color pictures mentioned previously :) and it's professional
> looking (no childish slams, etc) I'll be happy to put it on the website.

Has anyone ported "pgbench" to MySQL? That would be the perfect tool to show
the differences. Tom even has some scripts to make charts from it.