On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 11:23 +1000, Chris wrote: > Robert Cummings wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 14:49 -0700, Jim Lucas wrote: > >> This is only from my own personal testing. Mind you that I have only been using PostgreSQL for a > >> year or so. But one problem that I have always ran into with MySQL is that when JOIN'ing tables > >> that have large data sets is a PITA. > > > > Were you doing left joins when you experienced those problems? Left > > joins are usually very fast. > > If indexed properly of course ;) Yes, but you're not going to get a performance improvement if you use anything else if the table isn't properly indexed. Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ........................................................... -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
