Re: Blog post on EnterpriseDB...maybe off topic

From: Rick Gigger <rick(at)alpinenetworking(dot)com>
To: "Luke Lonergan" <llonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com>
Cc: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, "Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Blog post on EnterpriseDB...maybe off topic
Date: 2006-02-16 09:58:47
Message-ID: 948207DD-B31B-4718-8A03-8C97EA1D35CB@alpinenetworking.com
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>> Any comments on this? Is he referring to EnterpriseDB extensions
>> that
>> they don't make public?
>
> I've noticed a lot of press lately is mentioning their name next to
> ingres
> as an alternative to MySQL, so the MySQL folks might be feeling some
> Postgres heat from their direction.
>
> I also wonder where their project is too - they seem publicly
> opaque about
> progress, etc. From the web site's statements it looks like
> they've written
> a tool to tune the postgresql.conf file from which they claim a 50%
> speed-up, but that's not new or unique "fork-level" functionality.

What they don't say is whether that is a 50% speed up from the
default settings or a 50% increase from a carefully hand tunes file.

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