From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Need help to decide Mysql vs Postgres
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 13:01:23 -0400
Message-ID: <m34qcbbesc.fsf@knuth.cbbrowne.com> (raw)
References: <0C072E7CC947D511AC9600A0CC7341200256CF37@xeon400.tagaudit.com>
In the last exciting episode, ashah@tagaudit.com (Amit V Shah) wrote:
>> I am all for postgres at this point, however just want to know why I am
>> getting opposite results !!! Both DBs are on the same machine
>
>> Why do you say "opposite results" ?
>
> Please pardon my ignorance, but from whatever I had heard, mysql was
> supposedly always faster than postgres !!!! Thats why I was so
> surprised !! I will definately post the "analyze query" thing by
> end of today ...
There is a common "use case" where MySQL(tm) using the "MyISAM"
storage manager tends to be quicker than PostgreSQL, namely where you
are submitting a lot of more-or-less serial requests of the form:
select * from some_table where id='some primary key value';
If your usage patterns differ from that, then "what you heard" won't
necessarily apply to your usage.
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