Re: PostgreSQL vs MySQL, and FreeBSD

[Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>]

Bill Moran wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 11:11:18 -0500 (EST)
> Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Sebastian Hennebrueder wrote:
>>> If the queries are complex, this is understable.
>> The queries used for this comparison are trivial.  There's only one table 
>> involved and there are no joins.  It's testing very low-level aspects of 
>> performance.
> 
> Actually, what it's really showing is parallelism, and I've always
> expected PostgreSQL to come out on top in that arena.

Isn't it showing Postgres winning even without parallelism.

At 1 threads, Postgres looks like 800TPS where MysQL comes
in at about 600TPS on their Opteron charts.