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: 1999-07-08T12:16:04Z
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.
> 

After thinking a bit, it became clear to me that we are flaming 
senselessly here. So can anyone do a fast hack to test links
for speed? Especially with three or more tables being joined.

-- 
Leon.