Re: [HACKERS] What about LIMIT in SELECT ?

On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Eric Lee Green wrote:
> it's really hard to test, unfortunately, due to the differing natures
> of MySQL and PostgreSQL. MySQL starts up a connection very fast while
> PostgreSQL takes awhile (has anybody done work on the "herd of
> servers"  concept to tackle that?).

Is MySQL really all that much faster?  I've got a large number of CLI
utilities that pull data from a DB on a central server and I'm lagging on
scroll speed in my xterms for the most part.  I've yet to see any
measureable lag in connection setup.

My hardware isn't all that fast either.  (Ultra5 client, Ultra1/170E
server.)

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