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Re: Linux v.s. Mac OS-X Performance

Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@killerbytes.com>

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From: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@killerbytes.com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: pgsql general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2007-11-28T14:29:58Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
> Yes, very much so. Windows lacks the fork() concept, which is what makes
> PostgreSQL much slower there.

So grossly slower process creation would kill postgres connection times. But
what about the cases where persistent connections are used? Is it the case
also that Windows has a performance bottleneck for interprocess
communication?

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