Monday, December 20, 2010

PostgreSQL Performance vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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A recent poster to the pgsql-performance mailing list enquired as to the relative performance of Microsoft SQL Server vs. PostgreSQL.  It...
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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Two Hundred Commits

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My first patch ( add a separate TRUNCATE privilege ) was committed to the PostgreSQL source code repository (at the time, CVS) by Tom Lane ...
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

SE-Linux for PostgreSQL: Part 3

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Back in September, I wrote two blog posts on SE-Linux integration for PostgreSQL.  In part 1 , I discussed the work that had already been co...
Monday, December 13, 2010

Crunch Time for PostgreSQL 9.1

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According to the PostgreSQL 9.1 development plan , the final CommitFest for PostgreSQL 9.1 development will begin in 33 days.  Approximately...
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Monday, December 06, 2010

The Cost of Page Faults

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Over Thanksgiving, I wrote a bit about some work I did profiling PostgreSQL , and about squeezing a bit of overhead out of the backend shutd...
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Friday, December 03, 2010

Troubleshooting Database Unresponsiveness

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From time to time, we get complaints on the pgsql-performance mailing list about a PostgreSQL database that - for the most part - performs...
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Monday, November 29, 2010

MySQL vs. PostgreSQL, Part 1: Table Organization

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I'm going to be starting an occasional series of blog postings comparing MySQL's architecture to PostgreSQL's architecture.  Reg...
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