Re: Single client performance on trivial SELECTs

Kevin Grittner <kevin.grittner@wicourts.gov>

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
To: "Greg Smith" <greg@2ndquadrant.com>,"Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "Joshua Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com>, "David Fetter" <david@fetter.org>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-04-15T21:33:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
 
> I'm not sure exactly what is useful to be learned from that
> specific work.  But it does suggest two things:  one, this is far
> from an easy thing to fix.  Two, the only reason MySQL does so
> well on it is because there was some focused work on it, taking a
> quite a while to accomplish, and involving many people.  Doing
> better for PostgreSQL is something I see as more of a long-term
> goal, rather than something it would be reasonable to expect quick
> progress on.
 
Nice research.  Thanks for putting that in front of people.
 
-Kevin