Received: from localhost (maia-1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F36B39FBB9D for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 15:55:23 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31883-03 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 15:55:12 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from westnet.com (westnet.com [216.187.52.2]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2D549FBB93 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 15:55:12 -0300 (ADT) Received: from westnet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by westnet.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l69ItC4h002540 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 14:55:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (gsmith@localhost) by westnet.com (8.14.0/8.13.2/Submit) with ESMTP id l69ItCho002537 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 14:55:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: westnet.com: gsmith owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 14:55:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Greg Smith X-X-Sender: gsmith@westnet.com To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: PostgreSQL publishes first real benchmark In-Reply-To: <46926208.1070003@commandprompt.com> Message-ID: References: <46925AD9.9020208@sun.com> <36e682920707090921u433f9702n907e3a8d562a61ac@mail.gmail.com> <46926208.1070003@commandprompt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200707/64 X-Sequence-Number: 25748 On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > I would note that if you track through the other results that we indeed beat > MySQL ;) There's just enough hardware differences between the two configurations that it's not quite a fair fight. For example, the MySQL test had 10K RPM drives in the database server storage array, while the PostgreSQL one had 15K RPM ones. A few other small differences as well if you dig into the configurations, all of which I noted favored the PG system. -- * Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD