Re: Blog post on EnterpriseDB...maybe off topic

>> Any comments on this?  Is he referring to EnterpriseDB extensions  
>> that
>> they don't make public?
>
> I've noticed a lot of press lately is mentioning their name next to  
> ingres
> as an alternative to MySQL, so the MySQL folks might be feeling some
> Postgres heat from their direction.
>
> I also wonder where their project is too - they seem publicly  
> opaque about
> progress, etc.  From the web site's statements it looks like  
> they've written
> a tool to tune the postgresql.conf file from which they claim a 50%
> speed-up, but that's not new or unique "fork-level" functionality.

What they don't say is whether that is a 50% speed up from the  
default settings or a 50% increase from a carefully hand tunes file.