Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-10-17 12:13:00, schrieb Mikkel Høgh: > Besides, the if the Reply-To thing is so dangerous, why do most other > mailing lists do it? Curently I am on 117 Mailinglists and ONLY 2 Winsuck lists do this crap. So, from what are you talking about? Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Mi

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-10-16 23:17:35, schrieb Mikkel Høgh: > P.S.: Why are e-mails from this list not sent with a Reply-To: header > of the lists e-mail-address? Because if I hit I want to send a private message and if I hit it goes to the list andthe all people get bulk-mail from me? If you hav

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-17 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
At 09:42 PM 10/14/2008, you wrote: Mikkel Høgh wrote: On 14/10/2008, at 11.40, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: That might be true, if the only demographic you are looking for are professional DBAs, but if you're looking to attract more developers, not having sensible defaults is not really a g

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-17 Thread Tomasz Ostrowski
On 2008-10-17 12:13, Mikkel Høgh wrote: >> You're supposed to use "Reply to all" if you want to reply to the >> list. > > Well, I think the most common use case for a mailing list is to reply > back to the list, isn't that the whole point? It is a point of having "Reply to all" button. With "r

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-17 Thread Mikkel Høgh
On 17/10/2008, at 11.37, Tomasz Ostrowski wrote: On 2008-10-16 23:17, Mikkel Høgh wrote: P.S.: Why are e-mails from this list not sent with a Reply-To: header of the lists e-mail-address? Because it is dangerous - too easy to send to the list, when you really mean to send to one. Most e-m

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-17 Thread Tomasz Ostrowski
On 2008-10-16 23:17, Mikkel Høgh wrote: > P.S.: Why are e-mails from this list not sent with a Reply-To: header > of the lists e-mail-address? Because it is dangerous - too easy to send to the list, when you really mean to send to one. Most e-mail programs have two buttons for replying: ordinar

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-17 Thread Mikkel Høgh
On 16/10/2008, at 18.27, Scott Marlowe wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * DelGurth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Seems Tomasz linked to the wrong patch. The patch he meant was: http://drupal.org/files/issues/drupal_lookup_path-6.x.patch.txt That'

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-16 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * DelGurth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Seems Tomasz linked to the wrong patch. The patch he meant was: >> http://drupal.org/files/issues/drupal_lookup_path-6.x.patch.txt > > That's much better. > >> Also nice to see peopl

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-16 Thread Tomasz Ostrowski
On 2008-10-16 16:40, Stephen Frost wrote: There is an issue report with lengthy discussion on drupal.org: http://drupal.org/node/196862 And a proposed patch: I don't see 'limit 1' anywhere in that patch.. Sorry - haven't checked it - I have checked only a 6.x version http://drupal.org/files/

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-16 Thread Stephen Frost
* DelGurth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Seems Tomasz linked to the wrong patch. The patch he meant was: > http://drupal.org/files/issues/drupal_lookup_path-6.x.patch.txt That's much better. > Also nice to see people "benchmark" differences by just executing a > query once[2][3] This thread i

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-16 Thread DelGurth
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Tomasz Ostrowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I don't see 'limit 1' anywhere in that patch.. And you don't want to > use 'limit 1' *and* count(*), that doesn't do what you're expecting > (since count(*) is an aggregate a

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-16 Thread Stephen Frost
* Tomasz Ostrowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > There is an issue report with lengthy discussion on drupal.org: > http://drupal.org/node/196862 > And a proposed patch: > http://drupal.org/files/issues/drupal_lookup_path-5.x.patch.txt > which uses "limit 1". This patch is not applied though. I don't

Re: further tests with 8.3 was: Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-16 Thread Tom Lane
Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wonder if pg is using ssl even on sockets. No, it won't do that. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/

further tests with 8.3 was: Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-16 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:44:56 +0200 Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW I hope someone may find good use of this: > 2xXeon HT CPU 3.20GHz (not dual core), 4Gb RAM, RAID 5 SCSI > * absolutely not tuned Apache > * absolutely not tuned Drupal with little content, some blocks and >

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-16 Thread Tomasz Ostrowski
On 2008-10-16 10:34, Mikkel Hogh wrote: > It's not only to avoid one query, but to avoid one query every time > drupal_lookup_path() is called (which is every time the system builds > a link, which can be dozens of time on a page). Oh, $count is static. My bad. Using count for testing for emp

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-16 Thread Mikkel Høgh
It's not only to avoid one query, but to avoid one query every time drupal_lookup_path() is called (which is every time the system builds a link, which can be dozens of time on a page). So, I think it's probably a worthwhile tradeoff on MyISAM, because such queries are fast there, and you p

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-16 Thread Tomasz Ostrowski
On 2008-10-14 23:57, Mikkel Hogh wrote: > one is the dreaded "SELECT COUNT(pid) FROM > url_alias" which takes PostgreSQL a whopping 70.65ms out of the > 115.74ms total for 87 queries. This is stupid. The Drupal code looks like this: // Use $count to avoid looking up paths in subsequent call

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > "Matthew T. O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> Mind you, I find the SysV APIs uselessly baroque too, but there is one > >> feature that we have to have that is not in mmap(): the ability to > >> detect other processes attached to a shmem block. > > > D

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-15 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
Tom Lane wrote: I think the subtext there is that the Linux kernel hackers hate the SysV IPC APIs and wish they'd go away. They are presently constrained from removing 'em by their desire for POSIX compliance, but you won't get them to make any changes that might result in those APIs becoming mo

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-15 Thread Tom Lane
"Matthew T. O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Mind you, I find the SysV APIs uselessly baroque too, but there is one >> feature that we have to have that is not in mmap(): the ability to >> detect other processes attached to a shmem block. > Didn't we solve this problem on

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-15 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If there were ever any Linux distributions that increased this value from > the tiny default, you might have a defensible position here (maybe > Oracle's RHEL fork does, they might do something here). I've certainly > never seen anything besides Solaris

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Greg Smith
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Gregory Stark wrote: Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DB2 has automatically updated the "shmmax" kernel parameter from "33554432" to the recommended value "268435456". This seems like a bogus thing for an application to do though. It happens when y

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Tom Lane
Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> DB2 has automatically updated the "shmmax" kernel >> parameter from "33554432" to the recommended value "268435456". > This seems like a bogus thing for an application to do though. The Redhat > people seem happy

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Gregory Stark
Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DB2 has automatically updated the "shmmax" kernel > parameter from "33554432" to the recommended value "268435456". This seems like a bogus thing for an application to do though. The Redhat people seem happy with the idea but I'm pretty sure

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Gregory Stark
Martin Gainty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > MG>comments prefixed with MG> Incidentally that's a good way to make sure people don't see your comments. There are a few variations but the common denominator is that things prefixed with "foo>" are quotations from earlier messages. Many mailers hide

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Are you saying you have to reconnect to change schemas? In Oracle and >> PostgreSQL both you can change the current schema (or schemas for >> postgresql) with a single inline command. > > No I meant you have to change the schem

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Chris
Are you saying you have to reconnect to change schemas? In Oracle and PostgreSQL both you can change the current schema (or schemas for postgresql) with a single inline command. No I meant you have to change the schema after connecting. Some hosts only give you one db & one user. Yeh it suck

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Note this comment: >> /* >> * Queries sent to Drupal should wrap all table names in curly brackets. >> This >> * function searches for this syntax and adds Drupal's table prefix to all >> * tables, allowing Drupal to coexist

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Chris
Note this comment: /* * Queries sent to Drupal should wrap all table names in curly brackets. This * function searches for this syntax and adds Drupal's table prefix to all * tables, allowing Drupal to coexist with other systems in the same database if * necessary. */ That's an MySQL-ism for

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Greg Smith
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Kevin Murphy wrote: One thing that might help people swallow the off-putting default "toy mode" performance of PostgreSQL would be an explanation of why PostgreSQL uses its shared memory architecture in the first place. I doubt popularizing the boring technical details be

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Mikkel Høgh
On 14/10/2008, at 23.22, Merlin Moncure wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Mikkel Høgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After disabling SSL for localhost, I ran the tests again, and the performance gap is reduced to about 30%. ok, now consider you are on a read only load, with lots (if I read

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Mikkel Høgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After disabling SSL for localhost, I ran the tests again, and the > performance gap is reduced to about 30%. ok, now consider you are on a read only load, with lots (if I read the thread correctly) repetitive queries. mysql

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Mikkel Høgh
After disabling SSL for localhost, I ran the tests again, and the performance gap is reduced to about 30%. -- Kind regards, Mikkel Høgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 14/10/2008, at 21.17, Magnus Hagander wrote: Mikkel Høgh wrote: On 14/10/2008, at 20.23, Daniel Verite wrote: What I've noticed on

benchmark on D7 + PG 8.3 Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
forwarding here too cos I just got the copy sent to my personal address and just much later the one from pg list... + adding some more siege run. On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:05:42 +0200 Mikkel Høgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, those are interesting numbers. Did you use a real, logged > in, drupal

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Magnus Hagander
Mikkel Høgh wrote: > On 14/10/2008, at 20.23, Daniel Verite wrote: >> What I've noticed on drupal-6.4 with Ubuntu 8.04 is that the default >> postgresql.conf has: >> ssl=true >> and since drupal doesn't allow connecting to pgsql with unix socket >> paths [1], what you get by default is probably TCP

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 08:23:47PM +0200, Daniel Verite wrote: > [1] A patch has been posted here: http://drupal.org/node/26836 , but it > seems to have gotten nowhere. The comments about pg_connect() are > depressingly lame, apparently nobody had a clue how unix socket files > should be specifi

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Mikkel Høgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 14/10/2008, at 20.23, Daniel Verite wrote: >> >> What I've noticed on drupal-6.4 with Ubuntu 8.04 is that the default >> postgresql.conf has: >> ssl=true >> and since drupal doesn't allow connecting to pgsql with unix soc

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Mikkel Høgh
On 14/10/2008, at 20.23, Daniel Verite wrote: What I've noticed on drupal-6.4 with Ubuntu 8.04 is that the default postgresql.conf has: ssl=true and since drupal doesn't allow connecting to pgsql with unix socket paths [1], what you get by default is probably TCP + SSL encryption. A crude tes

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Daniel Verite
Mikkel Høgh wrote: In any case, if anyone has any tips, input, etc. on how best to configure PostgreSQL for Drupal, or can find a way to poke holes in my analysis, I would love to hear your insights :) I'm a recent Drupal user with postgres. What I've noticed on drupal-6.4 with Ub

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Erik Jones
On Oct 13, 2008, at 2:08 AM, admin wrote: Can anyone recommend an alternative CMS with the features and flexibility of Drupal that supports PostgreSQL 100%? What about the Python world, what is Plone like with PostgreSQL support? Look at using either Pylons or Turbogears with SQLAlchemy if

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Ang Chin Han <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:45:39 -0600 >>> "Joshua Tolley" <[E

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Mikkel Høgh
-- Med venlig hilsen, Mikkel Høgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 14/10/2008, at 17.28, Ang Chin Han wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Martin Gainty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, it's rather braindead. I'd rather not worry about why, but how'd we make Drupal use the PostgreSQL more effectiv

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Mikkel Høgh
Hmm, those are interesting numbers. Did you use a real, logged in, drupal session ID (anonymous users also get one, which still gives them cached pages). They are in the form of "SESS6df8919ff2bffc5de8bcf0ad65f9dc0f=59f68e60a120de47c2cb5c98b010" Note how the thoughput stays in the 30-

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:56:02 -0600 "Scott Marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This is a useful question, but there are reasonable answers to > >> it. The key underlying principle is that it's impossible to > >> know what will work well in a given situation until that > >> situation is tested.

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Ang Chin Han
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Martin Gainty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MG>comments prefixed with MG> > MG>What about INNODB is Drupal forgetting the default engine for 5.x? I don't use MySQL for drupal myself except for testing, but Drupal just uses the default storage engine for MySQL, whi

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Kevin Murphy
Greg Smith wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Mikkel H�gh wrote: You are targetting DBAs using servers with less than 512 MB RAM. Is PostgreSQL supposed to be used by professional DBAs on enterprise systems or is it supposed to run out of the box on my old Pentium 3? you'll discover that the Linux

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:42:33 -0700 "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mikkel Høgh wrote: > > On 14/10/2008, at 11.40, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: > > > That might be true, if the only demographic you are looking for > > are professional DBAs, but if you're looking to attract more > >

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Mikkel Høgh
On 14/10/2008, at 16.05, Martin Gainty wrote: > The benchmark is a mostly read-only Drupal site -- a few admins, but a > lot of readers. Drupal as a benchmark is skewed towards lots and lots > of small, simple queries, which MyISAM excels at. The long term fix > ought to be to help the Drupal

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Martin Gainty
MG>comments prefixed with MG> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues? > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; pgsql-general@postgresql.org > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PR

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Greg Smith
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Mikkel H?gh wrote: You are targetting DBAs using servers with less than 512 MB RAM. Is PostgreSQL supposed to be used by professional DBAs on enterprise systems or is it supposed to run out of the box on my old Pentium 3? Take a look at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Ang Chin Han
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:45:39 -0600 >> "Joshua Tolley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Premise: >> I'm not sustaining that the "default"

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Mikkel Høgh wrote: On 14/10/2008, at 11.40, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: That might be true, if the only demographic you are looking for are professional DBAs, but if you're looking to attract more developers, not having sensible defaults is not really a good thing. While I'll probably take t

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Greg Smith
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: The fact that out of the box on common hardware PostgreSQL under-perform MySQL with default config would matter if few paragraph below you wouldn't say that integrity has a *big* performance cost even on read-only operation. If you want a mor

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Mikkel Høgh
On 14/10/2008, at 11.40, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:45:39 -0600 "Joshua Tolley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: PostgreSQL ships with a very conservative default configuration because (among other things, perhaps) 1) it's a configuration that's very unlikely to fail miserab

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:45:39 -0600 > "Joshua Tolley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Premise: > I'm not sustaining that the "default" answers are wrong, but they are > inadequate. > BTW the OP made a direct compariso

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:45:39 -0600 "Joshua Tolley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Premise: I'm not sustaining that the "default" answers are wrong, but they are inadequate. BTW the OP made a direct comparison of pgsql and mysql running drupal. That's a bit different than just asking: how can I improve

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-13 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway I don't find myself comfortable with replies in these 2 lines > of reasoning: > 1) default configuration of PostgreSQL generally doesn't perform well > 2) PostgreSQL may be slower but mySQL may trash your da

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-13 Thread Martin Gainty
ly endorse content contained within this transmission. > CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues? > Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:45:17 -0400 > > > On Oct 13, 2008, at 5:

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
John DeSoi wrote: On Oct 13, 2008, at 5:08 AM, admin wrote: However, PostgreSQL support in the PHP CMS world seems lacking. Joomla is basically a MySQL-only shop. Drupal is *maybe* suitable, but who really knows where it will end up? My hope is that Drupal is moving in the right direction.

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-13 Thread John DeSoi
On Oct 13, 2008, at 5:08 AM, admin wrote: However, PostgreSQL support in the PHP CMS world seems lacking. Joomla is basically a MySQL-only shop. Drupal is *maybe* suitable, but who really knows where it will end up? My hope is that Drupal is moving in the right direction. With version 6

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-13 Thread ries van Twisk
On Oct 13, 2008, at 4:08 AM, admin wrote: I am also evaluating Drupal + PostgreSQL at the moment. We are building a local government website/intranet that doesn't need to be lightning fast or handle millions of hits a day, but it does need to be rock solid and potentially needs to manage c

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-13 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:08 AM, admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am also evaluating Drupal + PostgreSQL at the moment. We are building a > local government website/intranet that doesn't need to be lightning fast or > handle millions of hits a day, but it does need to be rock solid and > pote

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-13 Thread admin
I am also evaluating Drupal + PostgreSQL at the moment. We are building a local government website/intranet that doesn't need to be lightning fast or handle millions of hits a day, but it does need to be rock solid and potentially needs to manage complex business processes. So PostgreSQL seems

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-13 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:14:53 -0700 "Uwe C. Schroeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been testing it a bit performance-wise, and the numbers > > are worrying. In my test, MySQL (using InnoDB) had a 40% lead in > > performance, but I'm unsure whether this is indicative for > > PostgreSQL per

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-12 Thread Uwe C. Schroeder
> I have been testing it a bit performance-wise, and the numbers are > worrying. In my test, MySQL (using InnoDB) had a 40% lead in > performance, but I'm unsure whether this is indicative for PostgreSQL > performance in general or perhaps a misconfiguration on my part. In my experience the "numbe

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-12 Thread John DeSoi
On Oct 12, 2008, at 11:57 PM, Mikkel Høgh wrote: In any case, if anyone has any tips, input, etc. on how best to configure PostgreSQL for Drupal, or can find a way to poke holes in my analysis, I would love to hear your insights :) I just came across this article about moving Drupal from

[GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-12 Thread Mikkel Høgh
Hi there, I've been toying with using PostgreSQL for some of my Drupal sites for some time, and after his session at OpenSourceDays in Copenhagen last weekend, Magnus Hagander told me that there a quite a few in the PostgreSQL community using Drupal. I have been testing it a bit performan

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and postgreSQL

2006-01-15 Thread brew
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, John DeSoi wrote: > > In the meantime.. can anybody around here shed any light on using > > the Drupal ecommerce module with postgreSQL? > > I have used parts of the module (primarily the address management) and > I did not find it difficult to port for PostgreSQL. It ap

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and postgreSQL

2006-01-14 Thread John DeSoi
On Jan 14, 2006, at 2:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm probably going to connect Drupal to mysql and play some more. If we end up using it I'm leaning toward converting the ecommerce module table definition file from mysql to postgreSQL, I'll cross that bridge when we come to it. In

[GENERAL] Drupal and postgreSQL

2006-01-14 Thread brew
All. After reading about the Drupal CMS using mysql *OR* postgreSQL I've been experimenting with it, setting it up with postgreSQL and playing. Another fellow and I are considering using it more, but when we loaded the ecommerce module we could only find a table definition file for mysql.