Re: [PERFORM] Firebird 1.5.3 X Postgresql 8.1.3 (linux and windows)

2006-05-13 Thread Tom Lane
"andremachado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > continuing the saga, > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2006-04/msg00558.php , > my coleague created a test database with fake data (see below). I tried to use this data to replicate your results, and could not. I grabbed a copy of what

[PERFORM] Firebird 1.5.3 X Postgresql 8.1.3 (linux and windows)

2006-05-13 Thread André Felipe Machado
Hello, Jim I did not want to clutter mailboxes of those who are not interested at this weird problem. So, i pointed to the archived message that contains 2 tar.gz files (around 50 KB) with the two sets of queries (firebird and postgresql respectively), its results, explain analyze, pg configuration

Re: [PERFORM] Firebird 1.5.3 X Postgresql 8.1.3 (linux and windows)

2006-05-12 Thread Tom Lane
"andremachado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > continuing the saga, > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2006-04/msg00558.php , > my coleague created a test database with fake data (see below). Thanks. I played around with this a bit, and got results like these: original query, 8.1 b

Re: [PERFORM] Firebird 1.5.3 X Postgresql 8.1.3 (linux and windows)

2006-05-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:48:52PM -0200, andremachado wrote: Hello, continuing the saga, http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2006-04/msg00558.php , my coleague created a test database with fake data (see below). The above archived message contains the the tim

Re: [PERFORM] Firebird 1.5.3 X Postgresql 8.1.3 (linux and windows)

2006-05-12 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:48:52PM -0200, andremachado wrote: > Hello, > continuing the saga, > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2006-04/msg00558.php , > my coleague created a test database with fake data (see below). > > The above archived message contains the the timings of fire

[PERFORM] Firebird 1.5.3 X Postgresql 8.1.3 (linux and windows)

2006-05-12 Thread andremachado
Hello, continuing the saga, http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2006-04/msg00558.php , my coleague created a test database with fake data (see below). The above archived message contains the the timings of firebird and postgresql. The weird problem are the 2 queries that firebird exe

Re: [PERFORM] Firebird 1.5.3 X Postgresql 8.1.3 (linux and windows)

2006-04-25 Thread Tom Lane
"andremachado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After some time experimenting on windows, the conclusion is clear: > windows is likely crap for databases other than MS-SQL. Maybe. One thing that comes to mind is that you really should do some performance tuning experiments. In particular it'd be a

[PERFORM] Firebird 1.5.3 X Postgresql 8.1.3 (linux and windows)

2006-04-25 Thread andremachado
Hello, The performance comparison saga of the last month continues (see list archive). After some time experimenting on windows, the conclusion is clear: windows is likely crap for databases other than MS-SQL. I guess that MS-SQL uses lot of undocumented api calls, may run in kernel mode, ring 0