From: Date: October 7 1999 3:47am Subject: Re: [PHP3] Re: PostgreSQL vs Mysql comparison List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/15388 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Michael Widenius wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > The> What I'd love to see is a common set of data to work from, and table > The> structures...then come up with, again, a common set of "results expected", > The> from the database. Then, let the MySQL guys provide their query for the > The> results, and let the PostgreSQL guys come up with theirs, and compare > The> *that*. Don't compare how to get the results the fastest through MySQL, > The> and then how the same query stands up under PostgreSQL...let us give them > The> how to get it fastest from PostgreSQL... > > I have posted many messages to Postgresql developers about getting > benchmark that shows where PosgreSQL is good, but I haven't found > anyone that is interested in spending time on this! I have got the > definite feeling that the postgreSQL developers are not interested in > working on benchmarks! Who have you posted this as, and to what mailing lists? At this time, I don't recall ever seeing you post something, but it may have been that I was so busy that it slip'd me by... Our experiences *up until this past week* was that any time we tried to get somethign fixed, it was met with resistence, so we just said to hell with it... Obviously, there has been some mis-communications going on here... Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@stripped secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org