Re: eviscerating the parser

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

From: Joshua Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Date: 2011-05-22T17:38:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Robert,

> Another point is that parsing overhead is quite obviously not the
> reason for the massive performance gap between one core running simple
> selects on PostgreSQL and one core running simple selects on MySQL.
> Even if I had (further) eviscerated the parser to cover only the
> syntax those queries actually use, it wasn't going to buy more than a
> couple points.

I don't know if you say Jignesh's presentation, but there seems to be a lot of reason to believe that we are lock-bound on large numbers of concurrent read-only queries.

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Josh Berkus
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