Re: SAP DB: The unsung Open Source DB

> Good to learn PG, in fact, is faster than SAP DB. But how the figure 2.487 comes up? A single select statement or something else?

I think it was just a more-exact unsubstantiated claim.

Jon

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> DATE: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:00:30
> From: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
> To: Mike Mascari <mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com>, vwu98034(at)lycos(dot)com
> Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org,Jean-Christian Imbeault <jc(at)mega-bucks(dot)co(dot)jp>
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> >On Thursday 24 July 2003 04:42, Mike Mascari wrote:
> >> Vernon Smith wrote:
> >> > The unknown is only in North American, but not in Europe.
> >> > That is what I learnt more than a year ago. It has some
> >> > advantagess over PG from on-line information. It is
> >> > quicker than PG for one.
> >>
> >> No. PG is 2.5 times faster.
> >>
> >> See how easy it is for people to make unsubstantiated claims?
> >
> >Be fair Mike, it's actually 2.487 times faster
> >
> >Unsubstantiated claims should be implausibly accurate too ;-)
> >
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