Received: from localhost (maia-1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EC409FBBAC; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:50:44 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 63468-06; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:50:32 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from heaven.kostyrka.org (h1634.serverkompetenz.net [81.169.154.44]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D8CD9FBC17; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:50:32 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heaven.kostyrka.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BBF84FB8C; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:50:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from heaven.kostyrka.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (heaven.kostyrka.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 16938-06; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:50:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [91.141.104.160] (091-141-104-160.dyn.one.at [91.141.104.160]) by heaven.kostyrka.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C25D4FB86; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:50:27 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4676C5DE.7010101@kostyrka.org> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:50:22 +0200 From: Andreas Kostyrka User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070329 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PFC Cc: "Joshua D. Drake" , "Jonah H. Harris" , David Tokmatchi , pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org, pgsql-admin@postgresql.org, pgsql-novice@postgresql.org, pgsql-general@postgresql.org, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] [PERFORM] Postgres VS Oracle References: <36e682920706180910y519bc6a5h11e0ba56f45009ec@mail.gmail.com> <4676B7C7.6020801@kostyrka.org> <36e682920706181002i495f3fc3s2d55472e36a91b63@mail.gmail.com> <4676BE31.6040701@commandprompt.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200706/142 X-Sequence-Number: 25810 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 PFC wrote: > >> 2. Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM have a "lot" to fear in the sense of a >> database like PostgreSQL. We can compete in 90-95% of cases where >> people would traditionally purchase a proprietary system for many, >> many thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of dollars. > > Oracle also fears benchmarks made by people who don't know how to > tune Oracle properly... Well, bad results are as interesting as good results. And this problems applies to all other databases. Andreas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGdsXdHJdudm4KnO0RArTkAKCZs6ht4z0lb2zHtr5MfXj8CsTZdQCgmwE5 JAD6Hkul1iIML42GO1vAM0c= =FMRt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----