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From: Shridhar Daithankar <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL vs. MySQL
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 18:23:40 +0530
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01af01c34227$a6cff470$01000001@trouble>
References: <01af01c34227$a6cff470$01000001@trouble>

On Friday 04 July 2003 17:57, Brian Tarbox wrote:
> I recently took a system from MySQL to Postgres.  Same HW, SW, same data.
> The major operations where moderately complex queries (joins on 8 tables).
>
> The results we got was that Postgres was fully 3 times slower than MySql.
> We were on this  list a fair bit looking for answers and tried all the
> standard answers.  It was still much  much much slower.

This invites the slew of questions thereof. Can you provide more information 
on

1. Hardware
2. Postgresql version
3. Postgresql tuning you did
4. data size
5. nature of queries
6. mysql benchmarks to rate against.

Unless you provide these, it's difficult to help..

 Shridhar

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