[development] Drupal DB performance [WAS: drupal on postgresql benchmark]

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com>:

>
> I'm interested in improving the performance of Drupal, the
> performance of PostgreSQL, and the performance of Drupal running
> on PostgreSQL.  I can help with that, but trying to tune Drupal
> queries when PostgreSQL isn't tuned for the hardware it's
> running on is a recipe for wasted time.
>
> I'm not interested in proving that PostgreSQL is better than MySQL,
> I'm interested in _making_ PostgreSQL better than MySQL.  To do
> that, I need data.  Unfortunately, "PostgreSQL's default config
> performs poorly" isn't helpful data ;)
>

I've recently been playing with index modifications for improvement of 
the DB of MySql.  I haven't gotten to the point of opening a ticket for 
all of the changes yet but I have at least one open.

Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/
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