Re: Why Not MySQL?

On Thu, 4 May 2000, Mitch Vincent wrote:

> > Well, drat. Looks like 7.0's query plan is slower :-(. There's
> > something fishy about the numbers for 6.5.3 though --- how could it have
> > done that query with zero blocks read? Are you sure you are comparing
> > apples to apples here? I wonder whether the 6.5 system already had the
> > tables cached in kernel disk buffers while 7.0 was working from a
> > standing start and had to physically go to the disk.
>
> This is very possible as the 6.5.3 PG is running on the production server
> which is constantly being queried.
>
> >Also, did both
> > versions have the same -B and -S settings?
>
> I didn't specify any -B or -S settings so both are using their respective
> defaults..

For you machine, go with something like '-S <32*1024>' to use 32Meg of RAM
for ORDER/GROUP BY ...

Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
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