Kenneth Downs <ken@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Speaking as an end-user, I can give only one I've ever seen, which is > performance. Because of MVCC, Postgres's write performance (insert and > update) appears on my systems to be almost exactly linear to row size. > Inserting 1000 rows into a table with row size 100 characters takes > twice as long as inserting 1000 rows into a table with row size 50 > characters. Not sure why you'd think that's specific to MVCC. It sounds like purely an issue of disk write bandwidth. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match