Re: Low Performance for big hospital server ..

From: Frank Wiles <frank(at)wiles(dot)org>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Low Performance for big hospital server ..
Date: 2005-01-06 17:12:07
Message-ID: 20050106111207.52e39d04.frank@wiles.org
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:06:55 -0800
Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:

> I can't tell you how many times I've seen this sort of thing. And
> the developers always tell me "Well, we denormalized for performance
> reasons ... "

Now that's rich. I don't think I've ever seen a database perform
worse after it was normalized. In fact, I can't even think of a
situation where it could!

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