An interesting talk back was posted to this article that parallels the
experience of many folks with postgresql and mysql.
http://phpbuilder.com/annotate/message.php3?id=1010522
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 George.T.Essig@stls.frb.org wrote:
> Two years ago on phpbuilder.com, there was a performance comparison between
> MySQL and PostgreSQL. Tim Perdue simulated load on various
> sourceforge.net pages. See:
>
> http://phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20001112.php3?print_mode=1
>
> George Essig
>
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 20:54:51 -0500
> > From: Steve Lane <slane@fmpro.com>
> > To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
> > Subject: Re: MySQL vs. PostgreSQL
> > Message-ID: <B957959B.10424%slane@fmpro.com>
> >
> > Are there any current benchmarks showing postgres' performance against
> other
> > major dbs? I've only seen one, and I think it's a couple of years old.
> Eweek
> > profiled major commercial dbs and had mySQL as the open source
> > representative. Not even a whisper about PgSQL. I'd love to see some
> current
> > numbers, just to fend off with a stick the people who keep asking me why
> I
> > don't use mySQL.
> >
> > -- sgl
>
>
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