"carl garland" <carlhgarland@hotmail.com> writes:
> Currently postgres will support an incredible amount of tables whereas
> Interbase only supports 64K, but the efficiency and performance of the
> pg backend quickly degenerates after 1000 tables.
Current sources fix some problems with large numbers of indexes
(pg_index was being sequentially scanned in several places). Offhand
I'm not aware of any other significant real-world performance problems
in this area; can you be more specific about what's bothering you?
regards, tom lane