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In the following sentence, what do you think of saying "was found to perform better"?
In a study that compared PostGIS with Oracle Spatial, PostGIS was found to perform better
It sounds odd to me but I want to say more than just plain "PostGIS performed better"
It doesn't sound odd to me. It's passive voice, but that's not necessarily wrong, and here, it emphasizes that these were your study's findings.
