[CLUE-Talk] Postgres RULES!!!!!! Linux is more good than cheap!!!!

[Kevin Cullis]

Dave Anselmi wrote:
> 
> Grant Johnson wrote:
> 
> > update test_copy
> > set stat=(select t2.val from test2 t2 where t2.prikey=test_copy.ctr::int)
> > where stat='N';
> >
> > This little querry may not look like much, but on an Oracle on Solaris
> > machine, it takes over 5 minutes to update 20,000 out of 35,000 rows.
> >  The machine it is running is a dual CPU Ultra Sparc with a gig of RAM
> > (not sure of CPU speed).  However, updating 250,000 of 500,000 on
> > Postgres on Linux on a Celeron 300a with 256M of memory, it takes a
> > minute and 5 seconds.  Both were run on nearly unloaded machines.  The
> > Linux machine was additionally acting as a mail and file server at the time.

OK, let's see if the PHB's can see the numbers. How would Linux/Postgres
work on the first box?  Now THAT'S a numbers jump!!!  As Otis would say,
"from a PHB's perspective," would other aspects be slower?  Or in
keeping with this benchmark, faster?

Kevin