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Re: (download ANSI SQL benchmark?) Re: Postgres article

Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>

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From: Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Pete Forman <pete.forman@westgeo.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-11-21T17:51:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
At 10:58 AM 11/21/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:

>> The MySQL folk have always cherry-picked their benchmarks, long lied
>> about features in PG, do their benchmarking using default values
>> for PG's shared buffer etc WITHOUT TELLING PEOPLE while at the same
>> time installing MySQL with larger-than-default memory usage limits (the
>> group hired by GB used MySQL's default installation, but EXPLICITLY SAID
>> SO in the report), etc.
>
>The revised results that are on GB's site now include curves for MySQL
>*with* tuning per advice from the MySQL folk.

That's good.  Have the MySQL folk made any effort to reciprocate?



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