| From: | "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Ram Ravichandran" <ramkaka(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-general General" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Optimzing Postgresql |
| Date: | 2008-05-26 14:44:26 |
| Message-ID: | dcc563d10805260744v4b2536e1ufa6f8fd7453590ce@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Ram Ravichandran <ramkaka(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am deciding between MySQL and Postgres. I'm leaning towards Postgres
> mainly due the widely publicized speed when using transactions. However, I
> am not able to find any good books / resources for tuning/ optimizing the
> database. Is there a book like "High Performance MySQL" for Postgres that
> teaches what the different parameters are and how to tune them?
> Or do most techniques covered in the High Performance Mysql apply to
> Postgres too?
Aside from all the really good advice you've received so far, another
vital step is running the latest version of pgsql. 8.3 has a lot of
improvements, and look for 8.4 to be the same way.
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