On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 11:12:16AM -0700, David Fetter wrote: > There's your mistake. EAV is not performant, and won't become so. It sort of depends. I put all the EXIF information for my image gallery into an EAV table -- it was the most logical format at the time, although I'm not sure I need all the information. Anyhow, with clustering and indexes, Postgres zips through the five million records easily enough for my use -- at least fast enough that I can live with it without feeling the need for a redesign. As a general database design paradigm, though, I fully agree with you. Databases are databases, not glorified OO data stores or hash tables. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
