Your TPC-H test

Mr. Gomez,

Hi! I just read your TPC-H test restult posting. Thank you for taking the
time to do such a significant job reporting the results.

Unfortunately, your setup for the test could use some help from us. Mainly:

1) For any reasonable results, PostgreSQL must be tuned to non-default
parameters. See in particular:
http://www.varlena.com/varlena/GeneralBits/Tidbits/perf.html
We do realize that it imposes a burden on such tests to need manual
configuration of the database server. However, that's a problem we're not
going to solve for PostgreSQL this week, so please let us help you. Your
load time of days for the data in particular indicates a tuning problem; when
I ran TPC-H, data loaded in under an hour.

2) Testing MyISAM tables on MySQL without Foriegn keys or transactions
invalidates your test; these are requirements of the TPC and not optional.
You should test on an installation of MySQL which supports these features.

3) I would also like to see you test the current CVS for PostgreSQL. We've
been working with the OSDL to improve our TPC-H test results, and the queries
which timed out now return correct results.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Advocacy Volunteer
http://advocacy.postgresql.org
San Francisco