PostgreSQL 7 and earlier kind of sucked regarding performance. Noticeably that is, especially compared to MySQL. With PostgreSQL 8 and on, that changed. Unfortu

PostgreSQL 7 and earlier kind of sucked regarding performance. Noticeably that is, especially compared to MySQL. With PostgreSQL 8 and on, that changed. Unfortunately a lot of those well known projects started before PostgreSQL 8 came a long and so it was sort of inappropriate for the level of performance they required.