Re: [HACKERS] Fwd: Joins and links

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Leon <leon@udmnet.ru>
Cc: Bob Devine <devine@cs.utah.edu>, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1999-07-08T16:19:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > > As somone who has developed several commercial dbms systems,
> > > I would discourage doing a special "link" type.  There are
> > > other ways to gain performance -- de-normalize your tables
> > > if you are doing mainly reads; carefully check your storage
> > > layout; and, of course, buy more RAM ;-)
> > 
> > Good to see you around Bob.  This guy does know what he is talking
> > about.

No.  I wasn't flaming, just confirming that he has lots of experience.

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