Re: PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc., was Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL is much faster than MySQL, only when...

2003-11-27 Thread Paul Thomas
On 27/11/2003 08:08 Chris Travers wrote: Hi; I am trying to determine if there is anything I can do with MySQL that I can't do with PostgreSQL. HEAP tables are the last one I can't figure out. HEAP tables are MySQL tables which reside in memory and are visible across sessions. For obvious reason

Re: PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc., was Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL is much faster than MySQL, only when...

2003-11-27 Thread Chris Travers
Hi; I am trying to determine if there is anything I can do with MySQL that I can't do with PostgreSQL. HEAP tables are the last one I can't figure out. HEAP tables are MySQL tables which reside in memory and are visible across sessions. For obvious reasons, this violates the D in ACID. In many

PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc., was Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL is much faster than MySQL, only when...

2003-11-26 Thread Chris Travers
Hi all;Since we are on the topic of what prompted us to use PostgreSQL, I figured Iwould share my experiences as well, and some additional thoughts that I had.I chose PostgreSQL about 2 years ago when I realized that the application Iwas building needed something more robust than MySQL.  I fo

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL is much faster than MySQL, only when...

2003-11-26 Thread Randolf Richardson
Cross-posted to "comp.databases.postgresql.advocacy" because PostgreSQL could be very helpful to MySQL DBAs who wish to optimize their databases -- just convert it to PostgreSQL on a test system and use EXPLAIN and ANALYZE to identify the weaknesses. Even if these MySQL DBAs don

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL is much faster than MySQL, only when...

2003-11-26 Thread Barbara Lindsey
How does the performance compare using models mimicked from Oracle? Is there any information anywhere on that? Marek Lewczuk wrote: Użytkownik Robert Treat napisał: On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 08:07, Marek Lewczuk wrote: Yes. I think the gist of your post was "out of the box postgresql performed like

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL is much faster than MySQL, only when...

2003-11-26 Thread cnliou
>> I'm curious as to what type of application you run and what first >> prompted you to switch to postgresql? I would like to add my 2 cents to this although I have not been asked by anyone about this :-) If I remember correctly the fact about 7 years ago... when PostgreSQL already supported -

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL is much faster than MySQL, only when...

2003-11-26 Thread Marek Lewczuk
Użytkownik Robert Treat napisał: On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 08:07, Marek Lewczuk wrote: Yes. I think the gist of your post was "out of the box postgresql performed like garbage compared to mysql, but then i spent some time tweaking and tuning, taking advantage of indexes, and now it performs so quickly

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL is much faster than MySQL, only when...

2003-11-25 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Robert Treat wrote: Yes. I think the gist of your post was "out of the box postgresql performed like garbage compared to mysql, but then i spent some time tweaking and tuning, taking advantage of indexes, and now it performs so quickly that i am unable to make any changes within mysql to match post

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL is much faster than MySQL, only when...

2003-11-25 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
And ofcourse, you ran ANALYZE before doing any timings, right? On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 01:08:55PM +0100, Marek Lewczuk wrote: > Hello, > I have changed DB from MySQL to PostgreSQL. When I have run my > application on PostgreSQL it was disaster - it was much slower than > MySQL... > > I have tri

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL is much faster than MySQL, only when...

2003-11-25 Thread Marek Lewczuk
Użytkownik Martijn van Oosterhout napisał: And ofcourse, you ran ANALYZE before doing any timings, right? Of course. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL is much faster than MySQL, only when...

2003-11-25 Thread Marek Lewczuk
Hello, I have changed DB from MySQL to PostgreSQL. When I have run my application on PostgreSQL it was disaster - it was much slower than MySQL... I have tried to change PG configuration file etc.. no luck. After many long days of thinking what is wrong I have made several tests with "EXPLAIN"