[OSM-talk] Server slowness

[Nick Hill]

Kristian Thy wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, Nick Hill wrote:
>> At the same time, my tests using MySQL have shown that many of the
>> theoretical performance benefits of the postGIS system are just that
>> - theoretical, and genuinely look forward to being proven wrong on 
>> this.
> 
> Forgive my ignorance, but how can you evaluate PostGIS by testing MySQL?

Apologies, I should have specified R-tree indexes and point types in geospatial 
tables. MySQL supports these.