On Dec 5, 2007 6:15 AM, Kenneth Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have tried using PostgreSQL as the backend DB since version 7.4 and > ran into performance problems. In our attempts to address them we developed > the patch to use the native BIGINT type instead of the much slower NUMERIC > type. Version 8.2 was the first version that was just good enough to handle > our traffic but with too little headroom for comfort. We are getting ready > to test 8.3 and expect to migrate from MySQL to PostgreSQL for the backend > database at that time.
It would be interesting to find out why PostgreSQL was underperforming for you. What kind of tuning have you tried? I suspect that the new async commit options in 8.3 would improve things a lot. -Dave
