Shapefile vs. DB connections

[Paul Ramsey]

That is the conventional wisdom, and I have repeated it myself many 
times (on the basis of tests we did four years ago), but John Hagstrand 
has anecdotally told me that under concurrent load he finds his PostGIS 
is faster. So I think some new benchmarking is in order.

Paul

Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone have any info on comparing performance between serving
> MapServer w/ shapefiles vs. DB (i.e. PostGIS)?  I'm guessing shapefiles
> are quicker.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> ..Tom