[GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] (download ANSI SQL benchmark?) Re: Postgres article

2000-11-21 Thread Tom Lane
Pete Forman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I thought that Great Bridge's August benchmarks were rather skewed. They only used one particular test from the AS3AP suite. AFAIK there was nothing particularly sinister about that --- they didn't have time to run a large number of different tests, so

[GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] (download ANSI SQL benchmark?) Re: Postgres article

2000-11-21 Thread Tom Lane
Don Baccus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Great Bridge didn't do the benchmarking, they hired a third party to do so. And that third party didn't, AFAIK, cherry-pick tests in order to "prove" PG's superiority. In fairness, the third party was Xperts Inc, who have long done a lot of

Re: [HACKERS] (download ANSI SQL benchmark?) Re: Postgres article

2000-11-21 Thread Pete Forman
Don Baccus writes: I also hope that the PG crew, and Great Bridge, never stoop so low as to ship benchmarks wired to "prove" PG's superiority. I thought that Great Bridge's August benchmarks were rather skewed. They only used one particular test from the AS3AP suite. That was the basis for

Re: [HACKERS] (download ANSI SQL benchmark?) Re: Postgres article

2000-11-21 Thread Don Baccus
At 10:19 AM 11/21/00 +, Pete Forman wrote: Don Baccus writes: I also hope that the PG crew, and Great Bridge, never stoop so low as to ship benchmarks wired to "prove" PG's superiority. I thought that Great Bridge's August benchmarks were rather skewed. They only used one particular test

Re: [HACKERS] (download ANSI SQL benchmark?) Re: Postgres article

2000-11-20 Thread Don Baccus
At 10:24 AM 11/13/00 -0800, Limin Liu wrote: This's great. I have tested Postgres and MySQL with the benchmark shipped with mysql and (of course) MySQL out perform Postgres. So how many simultaneous read/write processes does the MySQL benchmark fire up? Why test a benchmark provided by