2009/8/26 Jean-Michel Pouré <j...@poure.com>: > Dear Kevin > >> So when you talk about focusing on usablility improvements you mean >> that priority should be given to supporting MySQL-specific syntax >> extensions and ensuring that there are no queries where the MySQL >> optimizer comes up with a more efficient plan than PostgreSQL? > > Yes. PostgreSQL should be able to run MySQL code quoted here: > > This is a prerequisite for people to be willing to test and adopt > PostgreSQL. People are not willing to debug frameworks like Drupal and > port them to PostgreSQL. We are quite alone and lost.
Er, so we should debug Drupal for them? I find it difficult to believe that's the best use of our time. >> One concern I have is that you don't mention PostgreSQL configuration >> in your performance advice, and I seem to remember you said that you >> didn't tune your postgresql.conf file beyond boosting the >> shared_buffers setting. If that's true, you might be somewhat >> surprised with the performance improvements if you tweak just a few >> other settings. > > shared_buffer 24M. That doesn't actually respond to anything he said in that paragraph. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers