Message-ID: <4D84ACEB.3030307@squeakycode.net>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 08:17:31 -0500
From: Andy Colson <andy@squeakycode.net>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;
	rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.9
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: phb07 <phb07@apra.asso.fr>
CC: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org, denis.grisot@bull.net
Subject: Re: Performance on AIX
References: <4D8470AD.4040700@apra.asso.fr>
In-Reply-To: <4D8470AD.4040700@apra.asso.fr>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

On 03/19/2011 04:00 AM, phb07 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> At Bull company, we want to answer a call for tender from a large company. And we are asked for information about PostgreSQL performance under AIX on Power 7 servers.
>
> By chance, has someone some data about this ?
> Has someone performed a benchmark using AIX quite recently ?
>
> Are there any reasons for having performance level significantly different between AIX and, let say, Linux, on a given platform ?
>
> Thanks by advance for any help.
>
> Philippe BEAUDOIN
>
>
Dunno, never gotten to play with AIX or a Power 7... If you sent me one I'd be more than happy to benchmark it and send it back :-)

Or, more seriously, even remote ssh would do.

-Andy