Re: Performance while loading data and indexing

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in
Cc: "Mario Weilguni" <mario(dot)weilguni(at)icomedias(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Performance while loading data and indexing
Date: 2002-09-26 14:37:35
Message-ID: 3977.1033051055@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Shridhar Daithankar" <shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in> writes:
> On 26 Sep 2002 at 11:50, Mario Weilguni wrote:
>> Just an idea, I noticed you use char(10) for esn and min, and use this as
>> index. Are these really fixed len fields all having 10 bytes?

> 10 bytes. Those are id numbers.. like phone numbers always have all the digits
> filled in..

If they are numbers, can you store them as bigints instead of char(N)?

regards, tom lane

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