Re: A not so good comparison of MVCC implementations

Robert Haas <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Jan 2018 19:03:09 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.advocacy
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On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 2:07 PM, Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]> 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.

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