Re: Large databases, performance

On 3 Oct 2002 at 12:26, Robert Treat wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 12:17, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> > On 3 Oct 2002 at 11:57, Robert Treat wrote:
> > May be it's time to rewrite famous myth that postgresql is slow. 
> 
> That myth has been dis-proven long ago, it just takes awhile for
> everyone to catch on ;-)

:-)

> Hmm... been awhile since I dug into mysql internals, but IIRC once the
> table was locked, you had to wait for the insert to complete so the
> table would be unlocked and the select could go through. (maybe this is
> a myth that I need to get clued in on)

If that turns out to be true, I guess mysql will nose dive out of window.. May 
be time to run a test that's nearer to real world expectation, especially in 
terms on concurrency..

I don't think tat will be an issue with mysql with transaction support. The 
vanilla one might suffer.. Not the other one.. At least theoretically..

> My thinking was that if your just doing inserts, you need to update the
> statistics but don't need to check on unused tuples. 

Any other way of doing that other than vacuum analyze? I thought that was the 
only way..

Bye
 Shridhar

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