Re: World's No.1 SQL server!! PostgreSQL defeated Oracle, MS SQLserver, DB2, Sybase, Interbase....!!!!

From: Obnoxio The Clown <obnoxio_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 14:56:40 GMT
Message-ID: <8ujnpm$1am$1@news.xmission.com>

From: David Fitzjarrell <oratune_at_aol.com>
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>Funny, the 'benchmarks' don't mention Oracle at all, just 'Proprietary
>1' and 'Proprietary 2'; apparently they didn't run tests against Oracle
>but they're trying to extrapolate the results to include all major
>RDBMS vendors. I'll bet this same crap is in the Sybase and Informix
>newsgroups as well.

It is all over the net.

I think he benchmarked against Oracle and SQLServer, but using some highly rigged and narrowly focussed benchmark.

>Generate some results that prove PostgreSQL is better than Oracle.
>Then come back and blow your horn, if you can.

Well, *my* gripe is that he waffled some tosh about "all standard benchmarks". If it isn't at www.tpc.org, then it's not a standard benchmark.

For once, I find myself on the same side as an Oracle bigot. Scary. :-)

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