On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Yang Zhang escribió:
>> I have the exact same table of data in both MySQL and Postgresql. In Postgresql:
>
> I just noticed two things:
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> [snip lots of stuff]
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> 1.
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>> ) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=50410166 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1
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> You're doing a comparison to MyISAM.
We've actually been using innodb as well; it exhibits similar
execution times to MyISAM.
>
>
> 2.
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>> select * from metarelcloud_transactionlog order by transactionid;
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> You're reading the whole table.
>
> This is unlikely to fly very far. I suggest you try some query that's
> actually going to be used in the real world.
This isn't some microbenchmark. This is part of our actual analytical
application. We're running large-scale graph partitioning algorithms.
--
Yang Zhang
http://www.mit.edu/~y_z/