Re: Faster data type for one-length values

From: Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Faster data type for one-length values
Date: 2007-05-30 19:46:20
Message-ID: 465DD48C.2070208@cheapcomplexdevices.com
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> André Volpato wrote:
>
>> The ammount of space saved seems pretty clear to me.
>
> Yeah, zero most of the time due to alignment.

So trading off more I/O for less CPU?

I wonder if for any I/O bound database servers
it might be worth packing tightly rather than
aligning indexes on one-byte data.

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