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Skipping to the end: > Moreover, the differences aren't statistically significant IMHO, but you could always debate. > With those results, I won't say that Po
by corysama 10y ago
Skipping to the end:
> Moreover, the differences aren't statistically significant IMHO, but you could always debate.
> With those results, I won't say that PostgreSQL on one OS is faster than on the other.
And, to answer my own request, I won't advise my client to migrate to Linux because of PostgreSQL performance. (You could argue that there are more tools for PostgreSQL on Linux than on Windows but that was not the point here)
> For me, PostgreSQL performance on Windows is not better nor worst, it's at par with Linux !
> All the results are available on my github.
- robconery 10y agoThere are a lot debates about this and from my experience the biggest issue with running PostgreSQL on Windows is the “Windows Tax”: background processes and services you don’t need on a DB server soaking up resources. Windows Update comes to mind.