Re: [PERFORM] MySQL vs PG TPC-H benchmarks

2004-04-21 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
Paul Thomas wrote: Looks like he's using the default postgresql.conf settings in which case I'm not suprised at pg looking so slow. His stated use of foreign keys invalidates the tests anyway as MyISAM tables don't support FKs so we're probably seeing FK check overheads in pg that are simply i

Re: [PERFORM] MySQL vs PG TPC-H benchmarks

2004-04-21 Thread Josh Berkus
Folks, I've sent a polite e-mail to Mr. Gomez offering our help. Please, nobody flame him! -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PERFORM] MySQL vs PG TPC-H benchmarks

2004-04-21 Thread Paul Thomas
On 21/04/2004 14:31 Cestmir Hybl wrote: > Looks like he's using the default postgresql.conf settings in which case > I'm not suprised at pg looking so slow. The question also is, IMHO, why the hell, postgreSQL still comes out of the box with so stupid configuration defaults, totally underestimated

Re: [PERFORM] MySQL vs PG TPC-H benchmarks

2004-04-21 Thread Cestmir Hybl
> Looks like he's using the default postgresql.conf settings in which case > I'm not suprised at pg looking so slow. The question also is, IMHO, why the hell, postgreSQL still comes out of the box with so stupid configuration defaults, totally underestimated for todays average hardware configurati

Re: [PERFORM] MySQL vs PG TPC-H benchmarks

2004-04-21 Thread Paul Thomas
On 21/04/2004 09:31 Nick Barr wrote: Hi, Has anyone had a look at: http://people.ac.upc.es/zgomez/ I realize that MySQL & PG cannot really be compared (especially when you consider the issues that MySQL has with things like data integrity) but still surely PG would perform better than the stat

Re: [PERFORM] MySQL vs PG TPC-H benchmarks

2004-04-21 Thread Rod Taylor
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 08:19, Rod Taylor wrote: > > I realize that MySQL & PG cannot really be compared (especially when you > > consider the issues that MySQL has with things like data integrity) but > > still surely PG would perform better than the stats show (i.e. #7 31.28 > > seconds versus 4

Re: [PERFORM] MySQL vs PG TPC-H benchmarks

2004-04-21 Thread Rod Taylor
> I realize that MySQL & PG cannot really be compared (especially when you > consider the issues that MySQL has with things like data integrity) but > still surely PG would perform better than the stats show (i.e. #7 31.28 > seconds versus 42 minutes!!!). We know that PostgreSQL 7.5 will perfor