On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:48 PM, testman1316 <danilo.rami...@hmhco.com> wrote: > In both we ran code that did 1 million square roots (from 1 to 1 mill). Then > did the same but within an If..Then statement.
> Note: once we started running queries on the exact same data in Oracle and > PostgreSQL we saw a similar pattern. On basic queries little difference, but > as they started to get more and more complex Oracle was around 3-5 faster. Looks like from the test cases you posted, you're not actually benchmarking any *queries*, you're comparing the speeds of the procedural languages. And yes, PL/pgSQL is known to be a farily slow language. If you want fair benchmark results, you should instead concentrate on what databases are supposed to do: store and retrieve data; finding the most optimal way to execute complicated SQL queries. In most setups, that's where the majority of database processor time is spent, not procedure code. Regards, Marti -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
