Re: how good is PostgreSQL

Gunnar R|nning <gunnar@candleweb.no>

From: Gunnar R|nning <gunnar@candleweb.no>
To: "Steve Wolfe" <steve@iboats.com>
Cc: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-11-01T00:58:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
"Steve Wolfe" <steve@iboats.com> writes:

>   One of our competitors spent a very, very large deal of money on high-end
> Sun equipment, so that they could write their CGI stuff in Java servlets.
> It still ran slow.  We run Perl on machines that pale compared to theirs,
> and get far better performance. : )

You can always do it slow if you don't design properly. A former customer
saved a lot hardware and maintenance cost by migrating from a perl based
publishing system to a Java based one. Less hardware, better performance and
more functionality. ;-) The old perl system had been developed and maintained
over a 4 year period - the initial development of the new Java based system
took about 9 months. 

regards, 

	Gunnar