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From: Michael Kleiser <mkl@webde-ag.de>
To: Leeuw van der, Tim <tim.leeuwvander@nl.unisys.com>
Cc: Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Performance List <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Data Warehouse Reevaluation - MySQL vs Postgres --
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:23:02 +0200
Message-ID: <4146FEC6.2040007@webde-ag.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BF88DF69D9E2884B9BE5160DB2B97A85010D6D62@nlshl-exch1.eu.uis.unisys.com>
References: <BF88DF69D9E2884B9BE5160DB2B97A85010D6D62@nlshl-exch1.eu.uis.unisys.com>

What MySQl-table-type did you use?
Was it "MyISAM" which don't supports transactions ?
Yes I read about that bulk-inserts with this table-type are very fast.
In Data Warehouse one often don't need transactions.


Leeuw van der, Tim schrieb:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-performance-owner@postgresql.org 
> [mailto:pgsql-performance-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Steinar H. 
> Gunderson
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 3:33 PM
> To: PostgreSQL Performance List
> Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Data Warehouse Reevaluation - MySQL vs Postgres --
> 
> 
>  > On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 02:42:20PM +0200, Leeuw van der, Tim wrote:
>  > > - PostgreSQL 7.3 running on CYGWIN with cygipc daemon
>  >
>  > Isn't this doomed to kill your performance anyhow?
> 
> Yes and no, therefore I mentioned it explicitly as one of the caveats. 
> When doing selects I could get performance very comparable to MySQL, so 
> I don't want to blame poor insert-performance on cygwin/cygipc per se.
> I'm not working on this app. anymore and don't have a working 
> test-environment for it anymore so I cannot retest now with more recent 
> versions.
> 
> regards,
> 
> --Tim
> 
>  >
>  > /* Steinar */
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