On Wed, 23 May 2001, Michael Richards wrote:
> Finally, I'm planning on moving this to 7.2 and converting all the
> joins to use outer joins. Will there be a significant penalty in
> performance running outer joins?
Why are you planning on using outer joins? Yes there is a performance penalty
because postgres will have to emit more tuples. Are you sure that you need to
use outer joins?
-- Dave