Re: A not so good comparison of MVCC implementations

Michael Paquier <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Jan 2018 13:53:38 +0900

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.db.postgresql.advocacy
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 05:07:43PM -0500, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>> 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.

Their article never uses "configuration", "configure" and has no mention
about what kind of tuning they've done for any systems.
--
Michael

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