OT: Re: [Zope] MySQL or PostGres

[tonyl@vextech.net]

Mitch Pirtle wrote:

> 
> Um, I can outdo that on my Dell laptop.  ?
> 
> Hey, (snaps fingers) I got an idea, maybe you can bring in a specialist
> to performance tune?  (evil grin)
> 
> Seriously, something has to be really wrong here, because a "basic"
> table (say, 20 columns, mixed int/char/varchar) with 20,000 records in
> an insert with mysqlimport should go in minutes, not hours.  The only
> time I've seen something like that (beyond Access) was an Oracle
> database with a perl load script (no commits, the whole durn thang) and
> eensy-weensy rollback segments that got splattered to smithereens.  But
> with MySQL I was loading imports of >100,000 records in less than an
> hour on a dual P-III 333 MHz machine, with the world's slowest RAID
> controller[TM].
> 
> If you want, I can maybe ask a few questions to find out what the
> problem is, but that's off-topic.  Seems like somebody forgot to put
> some oil in that Ferrari -;^>=


Well, it sounds like someone put a rusty old tractor engine under the
hood!

As I said before, it's not something I'm directly involved in, so I have
no idea about any implementation issues. I just see it getting slower as
more records are added. Retrieving the data hasn't showed any problems
though.