Re: A not so good comparison of MVCC implementations

"Jonathan S. Katz" <[email protected]> Sun, 28 Jan 2018 17:07:43 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.advocacy
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Robert,

> On Jan 26, 2018, at 7:03 PM, Robert Haas <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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.

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

Thanks,

Jonathan