X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (developer.postgresql.org [64.117.224.193]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 843F4B43171 for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2003 13:50:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([64.117.224.193]) by localhost (svr1.postgresql.org [64.117.224.193]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 88862-09 for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2003 10:50:32 -0300 (ADT) Received: from houston.familyhealth.com.au (unknown [203.59.48.253]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A195EB43168 for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2003 10:50:29 -0300 (ADT) Received: from houston.familyhealth.com.au (chriskl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by houston.familyhealth.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h64DoRm3012490; Fri, 4 Jul 2003 21:50:27 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from chriskl@familyhealth.com.au) Received: from localhost (chriskl@localhost) by houston.familyhealth.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) with ESMTP id h64DoQAo012487; Fri, 4 Jul 2003 21:50:26 +0800 (WST) X-Authentication-Warning: houston.familyhealth.com.au: chriskl owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 21:50:26 +0800 (WST) From: Christopher Kings-Lynne To: Brian Tarbox Cc: Rafal Kedziorski , Subject: Re: PostgreSQL vs. MySQL In-Reply-To: <01af01c34227$a6cff470$01000001@trouble> Message-ID: <20030704214951.L12459-100000@houston.familyhealth.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Archive-Number: 200307/59 X-Sequence-Number: 2352 > 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. I have never found a query in MySQL that was faster than one in PostgreSQL. Chris