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Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:27:24 +0100
From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>
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To: "Jignesh K. Shah" <J.K.Shah@Sun.COM>
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Subject: Re: PostgreSQL publishes first real benchmark
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Jignesh K. Shah wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I think this result will be useful for performance discussions of 
> postgresql against other databases.
> 
> http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2004/results/res2007q3/
> 
> More on Josh Berkus's blog:
> 
> http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/database/soup/archives/postgresql-publishes-first-real-benchmark-17470 

That's really exciting news!

I'm sure you spent a lot of time tweaking the settings, so let me ask 
you something topical:

How did you end up with the bgwriter settings you used? Did you 
experiment with different values? How much difference did it make?

-- 
   Heikki Linnakangas
   EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com