Re: PostgreSQL vs. MySQL

Michael Mattox <michael.mattox@verideon.com>

From: "Michael Mattox" <michael.mattox@verideon.com>
To: "Brian Tarbox" <btarbox@theworld.com>, "Rafal Kedziorski" <rafcio@polonium.de>, <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-07-04T12:46:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-performance
> I'm actually leaving this list but I can answer this question.
> Our results
> were with a single user and we were running Inodb.  We were running on
> RedHat 8.0 / 9.0 with vanilla linux settings.

That's funny, you make a statement that Postgres was 3 times slower than
MySQL and then you promptly leave the list!  Just kidding.

It'd be interesting to see what happens if you test your system with a
hundred users.  If it's a webapp you can use JMeter to do this really
easily.

Michael