Re: A not so good comparison of MVCC implementations - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Jonathan S. Katz
Subject Re: A not so good comparison of MVCC implementations
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Msg-id F09911E0-667C-4F12-A0E9-AE8C5752FB93@postgresql.org
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In response to Re: A not so good comparison of MVCC implementations  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Hi Robert,

> On Jan 26, 2018, at 7:03 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 2:07 PM, Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> wrote:
>>> Yeah, that's really deceptive.
>>
>> Skimming the paper, it also does not mention which versions of the software
>> are being used.  Ideally how the DBs were configured on the hardware
>> would be great to see too, but that may be asking too much.
>
> That's because they didn't use *any* version of PostgreSQL.  They
> tested something that they claim works *like* PostgreSQL but is
> actually not the PostgreSQL code.

To clarify, that comment was based on all the databases they were using,
not just PostgreSQL.

Thanks,

Jonathan



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