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Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 17:31:02 +0100 (CET)
From: Mauro Bertoli <bertolima@yahoo.it>
Subject: Re: Postgres performance
To: PFC <lists@boutiquenumerique.com>,
	Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
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--- PFC <lists@boutiquenumerique.com> wrote:
> 	You mean, you have no foreign keys in your database
?
> 	In SELECT they are definitely useful (think select
> for update, isolation  
> level serializable...)
No, I haven't foreign keys in the older version, in
that new I've it... however I manage relations from
app code (PHP)... doesn't MYSQL allow to use 'foreign
keys' in sure and fast way then?


> > - why postgres use a new process for every query ?
> > (mySQL, if I'm not wrong, use threads... I think
> its
> > faster)
> 
> 	Not for every query, for every CONNECTION.
> 	You are using persistant connections are you. Are
you ?
I'm using PHP and every user (can be from 1 user to
100 users) must connect to the database... do you know
how I can use persistant connection? I think it's
impossible... I'm wrong?
> 
> > - why connection time is slower? (compared to
> mySQL)?
> 
> 	This is of no importance as everyone uses
> persistent connections anyway.
See last answer...

> > - why postgres require analyze? (mySQL, if I'm not
> > wrong, don't require it)
> > Yours answers will be very apreciated! Thx
> 
> 	So it has a planner which knows what it's doing ;)
> instead of just  
> guessing in the dark.
> 
> 	And MySQL requires analyze too (read the docs),
> optimize table which  
> looks like vacuum to me, and sometimes repair
> table...
Ok... they are conceptually implemented in the same
mode...
Thx a lot! Now my ideas about pg & mySQL are cleared
(and corrects ;) )
Mauro


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