PG also shipped with EXTREMELY conservative defaults for buffers/etc., so it ran like total ass 'out of the box' for years. A quick change to buffer allocation

PG also shipped with EXTREMELY conservative defaults for buffers/etc., so it ran like total ass 'out of the box' for years. A quick change to buffer allocations and things in the config file made it fly, but you had to 'know' that was a thing, where mysql just...didn't need that tweaking.