In the last exciting episode, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (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. -- output = ("cbbrowne" "@" "acm.org") http://linuxdatabases.info/info/rdbms.html The difference between a child and a hacker is the amount he flames about his toys. -- Ed Schwalenberg ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings