Re:Dear Postgres
by rgbrenner on Friday October 13, 2017 @04:46PM
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NO. Nothing I wrote above has anything to do with what you've written here. (It's so irrelevant, I have to ask: did you read my post at all?)
PG 7.x was 2000-2003. A full 5 years after MySQL was released.. and 7 years after mSQL.
The performance of mSQL versus pre-Postgres95 has nothing to do with a setting in PG 7.x released years later.
The performance advantage of mSQL was directly related to the stripped down DBMS that was developed to replace Postgres (AGAIN IN 1993) and the incomplete SQL implementation (AGAIN IN 1993)... both tradeoffs that Postgres did not make.
The issue you're referring to is a separate performance issue that did not occur until years later.. after MySQL already won the marketshare race.
Between the start of Postgres in 1986 and PG 7.x, there's about 14 years of history you're forgetting.
PG 7.x was 2000-2003. A full 5 years after MySQL was released.. and 7 years after mSQL.
The performance of mSQL versus pre-Postgres95 has nothing to do with a setting in PG 7.x released years later.
The performance advantage of mSQL was directly related to the stripped down DBMS that was developed to replace Postgres (AGAIN IN 1993) and the incomplete SQL implementation (AGAIN IN 1993)... both tradeoffs that Postgres did not make.
The issue you're referring to is a separate performance issue that did not occur until years later.. after MySQL already won the marketshare race.
Between the start of Postgres in 1986 and PG 7.x, there's about 14 years of history you're forgetting.