Re: Low Performance for big hospital server .. - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Frank Wiles
Subject Re: Low Performance for big hospital server ..
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Msg-id 20050106111207.52e39d04.frank@wiles.org
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In response to Re: Low Performance for big hospital server ..  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Responses Re: Low Performance for big hospital server ..  (Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>)
Re: Denormalization WAS: Low Performance for big hospital server ..  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Re: Low Performance for big hospital server ..  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:06:55 -0800
Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.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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   Frank Wiles <frank@wiles.org>
   http://www.wiles.org
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