Re: [HACKERS] Fwd: Joins and links

Leon <leon@udmnet.ru>

From: Leon <leon@udmnet.ru>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Bob Devine <devine@cs.utah.edu>, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1999-07-08T06:21:59Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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.

Believe me, I know what I say. Some day I spoke exactly like you,
but having seen an impementation of network DBMS, I suddenly
realized that SQL days are numbered. The sooner you understand that
the better.

-- 
Leon.