On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 02:49:23PM +0200, Dimitri wrote:
> The story is simple: for the launching of MySQL 5.4 I've done a
> testing comparing available on that time variations of InnoDB engines,
> and at the end by curiosity started the same test with PostgreSQL
> 8.3.7 to see if MySQL performance level is more close to PostgreSQL
> now (PG was a strong true winner before). For my big surprise MySQL
> 5.4 outpassed 8.3.7...
> However, analyzing the PostgreSQL processing I got a feeling something
> goes wrong on PG side.. So, now I've installed both 8.3.7 and 8.4beta1
> to see more in depth what's going on. Currently 8.4 performs much
> better than 8.3.7, but there is still a room for improvement if such a
> small query may go faster :-)
>
> Rgds,
> -Dimitri
>
> On 5/6/09, Albe Laurenz <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at> wrote:
> > Dimitri wrote:
> >> I've run several tests before and now going in depth to understand if
> >> there is nothing wrong. Due such a single query time difference InnoDB
> >> is doing 2-3 times better TPS level comparing to PostgreSQL..
> >
> > Why don't you use MySQL then?
> > Or tune PostgreSQL?
> >
> > Yours,
> > Laurenz Albe
> >
Another thought, have you tuned PostgreSQL for an in memory database?
Those tuning options may be what is needed to improve the plan chosen
by PostgreSQL.
Cheers,
Ken