Re: PostgreSQL Benchmarks

So the database is actually feeding the dns requests?

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Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 06:09:56PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 
> > Ask him if he ever accessed a .org web site.  That name lookup will be
> > powered by PostgreSQL soon.  They just won the contract yesterday.
> 
> And .info is powered by PostgreSQL today.  Our remarks on the subject
> are available for public consumptions here:
> 
> http://www.icann.org/tlds/org/questions-to-applicants-13.htm#Response13TheInternetSocietyISOC
> 
> (sorry about the long line).  No, I don't have any compare-to-Oracle
> benchmarks to share, alas.  But PostgreSQL meets our needs.  For a
> quick demonstration of how fast PostgreSQL can be, you can execute
> this:
> 
> $ whois -h whois.afilias.net afilias.info
> 
> I should tell you that it's sort of a cheat: the reason for the speed
> is partly the database design.  But Postgres is nice and fast in our
> experience, provided you configure and program correctly.  Sounds
> like everything else, to me.
> 
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