> I recently took a system from MySQL to Postgres. Same HW, SW, same data.
> The major operations where moderately complex queries (joins on 8 tables).
>
> The results we got was that Postgres was fully 3 times slower than MySql.
> We were on this list a fair bit looking for answers and tried all the
> standard answers. It was still much much much slower.
I have never found a query in MySQL that was faster than one in
PostgreSQL.
Chris