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12th December 2007 - Link Blog

PostgreSQL 8.3 vs. 8.2 - a simple benchmark. Stefan Kaltenbrunner reports a 2.2x speed increase for PostgreSQL 8.3 compared to 8.2 for a relatively simple benchmark.

Posted 12th December 2007 at 12:42 am

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