Re: PostgreSQL vs. InnoDB performance - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tino Wildenhain
Subject Re: PostgreSQL vs. InnoDB performance
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Msg-id 1117777454.5018.4.camel@Andrea.peacock.de
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In response to PostgreSQL vs. InnoDB performance  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Am Freitag, den 03.06.2005, 00:36 +0200 schrieb Peter Eisentraut:
> On a particular system, loading 1 million rows (100 bytes, nothing
> fancy) into PostgreSQL one transaction at a time takes about 90
> minutes.  Doing the same in MySQL/InnoDB takes about 3 minutes.  InnoDB
> is supposed to have a similar level of functionality as far as the
> storage manager is concerned, so I'm puzzled about how this can be.
> Does anyone know whether InnoDB is taking some kind of questionable
> shortcuts it doesn't tell me about?  The client interface is DBI.  This
> particular test is supposed to simulate a lot of transactions happening
> in a short time, so turning off autocommit is not relevant.

Maybe postgres' actually working ref-integrity checks bite here?
That test is a bit vague - maybe we can see more details? :-)

> As you might imagine, it's hard to argue when the customer sees these
> kinds of numbers.  So I'd take any FUD I can send back at them. :)
>


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