X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E2ED329D69 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:20:38 +0100 (BST) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 83137-01 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:20:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C7C8329E8E for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:20:31 +0100 (BST) Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C7EAZ-0004M1-00 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:20:31 +0200 Received: from srv.protecting.net ([212.126.218.242]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:20:31 +0200 Received: from hf0722x by srv.protecting.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:20:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org From: Harald Fuchs Subject: Re: Data Warehouse Reevaluation - MySQL vs Postgres -- Date: 14 Sep 2004 16:15:43 +0200 Organization: Linux Private Site Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: hf0722x@protecting.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: srv.protecting.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200409/118 X-Sequence-Number: 8246 In article , "Leeuw van der, Tim" writes: > So what I can say is, that if you want fast INSERT performance from > PostgreSQL then you'll probably have to do some trickery that you > wouldn't have to do with a default MySQL installation. I think the word "INSERT" is superfluous in the above sentence ;-) Contrary to MySQL, you can't expect decent PostgreSQL performance on decent hardware without some tuning.