Re: Postgres Internals

> Hi All,
>
> Im running some benchmarking tests on mysql, postgres and interbase
> database servers.
>
> does anyone know the reasons why or know where i can find out some
> technical reasons why the postgres database server is particularly good
> in relation to the others or just by itself e.g. use of query
> optimisation or indexing etc. I'm only looking at creates, selects,
> inserts, update and delete statements. I've noticed it is slow at
> inserting data into tables, but especially quick at doing complex
> selects (i.e. containing many joins). Why is this so?

Our optimizer is very good compared to MySQL. Not sure about Interbase.
We even have GEQO for joins of >10 tables.

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