"Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed now Slackware. Postgres 8.0 fresh compiled, basically I > see the same weird behaviour. There are several possibilities now:
...but the basic fact remains: something is insanely wrong in your installation. PostgreSQL is no slower than MySQL for similar work, and it is faster under pressure, since it scales better with load than MySQL does. (Same pattern, for the same reasons, as when comparing Oracle to MS-SQL.) -tih -- Tom Ivar Helbekkmo, Senior System Administrator, EUnet Norway Hosting www.eunet.no T +47-22092958 M +47-93013940 F +47-22092901 FWD 484145
