Re: MySQL vs PG TPC-H benchmarks

Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca>

From: Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca>
To: Nick Barr <nicky@chuckie.co.uk>
Cc: PgSQL Performance ML <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-04-21T12:22:29Z
Lists: pgsql-performance
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 42 minutes!!!).
> 
> We know that PostgreSQL 7.5 will perform much better than 7.4 did due to
> the efforts of OSDN and Tom.

OSDL not OSDN.

> I've enquired as to whether they ran ANALYZE after the data load. They
> don't explicitly mention it, and given the mention it took 2.5days to
> load 1GB of data, they're not regular PostgreSQL users.