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Re: Great Bridge benchmark results for Postgres, 4 others

Steve Wolfe <steve@iboats.com>

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From: "Steve Wolfe" <steve@iboats.com>
To: "Bryan White" <bryan@arcamax.com>, "Ned Lilly" <ned@greatbridge.com>, "PostgreSQL General" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-08-14T23:30:32Z
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> 1) Using only ODBC drivers.  I don't know how much of an impact a driver
can
> make but it would seem that using native drivers would shutdown one source
> of objections.

  Using ODBC is guaranteed to slow down the benchmark.  I've seen native
database drivers beat ODBC by anywhere from a factor of two to an order of
magnitude.

steve